When your happiness is someone else's happiness, that is love.
Doing what you love is freedom. Loving what you do is happiness.
The world needs poetry now more than ever. It’s the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.
My understanding of God has come from my own personal experiences. Because I was in trouble so many times in New York that if you were me, you would believe in God too.
I’m more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what’s going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities.
I pretend I’m not hurt, I walk about the world like I’m having fun.
I was never successful in a noteworthy way, no one wrote about me, and I didn’t have recognition. I’ve met a lot of musicians along the way who thought I was good, and they knew that was important to me. Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.
Sometimes I wish I was a beautiful machine so I could resist your kiss and not cry when you’re mean.
God has saved me a million times, so I think He mustve enjoyed my song.
I was, you know, a mess. I totally wanted to kill myself every day.
It’s not like I think my art is inspirations from icons strung together. They’re just sort of people who others talk about. I am definitely interested in the masters of different genres, they’re talented and popular for a reason.
Love is strange, sometimes it makes you crazy, it can burn or break you down.
What other people think of me is none of my business. Sometimes, it hurts my feelings, but I have to just keep going.
When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn’t believe that we were mortal.
I already have success. I had it a long time ago. It’s nothing to do with my music. Music is secondary, at this point. The good stuff is really good, but I have success because I’m at peace and I’m a good person in my everyday life and that’s important.
If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.
I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.
Growing up I was always prone to obsession, partly because of the way I am, but partly because after feeling so lonely for such a long time, when I found someone or something that I liked, I felt helplessly drawn to it. I suppose that accounts for some of the creepiness in my music.
I want to find someone who’s really magnetic but who isn’t going to do anything bad to me. It’s hard.
Be like snow – cold, but beautiful.