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Obviously there's so much about me on the Internet that you can turn against me, and you can make me into any person you want.

I guess I do feel the need to repent. I do feel like I owe the world a great album. I don't know why I feel that way. I just do.

There are just some things that you can't deny.

There's positive attention and there's negative attention - negative attention is easy, positive attention requires actual hard work.

I feel like every great record is like a world in itself.

The touring band is DIIV, and the songs are always written with them in mind. But the new record is going to be more "me."

I had to have the record literally taken away from me. I am such a perfectionist.

I went with Beach Fossils and we played 40 shows because we wanted people to see us.

I don't think fear necessarily is a core human emotion, but I do think fear of death is something that is at the core of every person's existence.

Music journalists are some of the lazy, most uninspired, dull people I've ever met.

For me, it's always been important to have the live band be one thing, and the recorded band be kind of another thing.

I am super-interested in fashion. I love being a person whose clothes get discussed. That makes it more interesting for me.

I'm like part of the Kurt Cobain school of writing lyrics, which is the syntax of the words is more important than ... is where it all comes from.

All I'm trying to do is make music that people like and that makes people happy.

A record is worth 10,000 live shows.

It's totally true: Ariel, Christopher Owens, me, and Courtney Love, all in Saint Laurent ads, all with the same haircut.

I spent my life working before I started band. I worked construction, landscaping. I worked in kitchens, cleaned dishes. I worked demolition.

Drugs are fine for you alone at home, but when it comes to being a family, which a band is, it just messes everything up.

[YSL creative director] Hedi [Slimane] is a music-obsessed guy. I might've originally met him through Sky.

Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected.

We were a commodity used by corporations to make their brand look fashionable, but then they used us to keep kids out of venues.

Recovery culture teaches you that you have to repent. I don't think that's necessary.

It's so easy to hate something. It's harder to genuinely appreciate something.

When I read about myself and how writers have focused on negative stuff, it hurts my feelings.