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I don't have anything to prove.
We all come back to our little worlds.
I'm more into Neil Young and radical honesty.
For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
You don't need to drink if you have emotional problems.
As a homosexual, my job is simply to sodomize mediocrity.
If you're not Jay-Z, a record leaking isn't going to affect you.
I'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
Everything I do is 100% automation, which means I'm just doing it live.
What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.
I see a lot of people doing an "'80s thing" who weren't even born until the '90s.
I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.
I've always said I write albums; I don't write random songs and then sort them out.
I've been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.
That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
I have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover.
It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are.
When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
I'm obsessed with five different things a day. It's like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.
I want to build an audience that's willing to follow us in whichever direction we might choose.
I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.
Usually I'm not really conscious of what's going on. I don't have a lot of memories onstage. At all.
I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.
Unfortunately it's hard for me to be a fanboy for anything these days just because I see so much music.
I like my solitude, and I'm a strong-willed person; I'm a very hard-to-be-around person sometimes, I guess.
I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?
I don't think you should make music to make music, just to show that you can. That's the opposite of vitality.
I think the younger kids need to realize there's this whole forgotten 90s that people don't really talk about.
You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste.
The Internet nowadays is all sensationalism, and it's just terrifying when you're actually experiencing it as a person.
I don't leave my room, and all I am surrounded by are guitars and equipment, y'know? It's not always the best place to be.
All music is devotional, whether it's devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something.
I collaborate a little bit with different aspects of my own mind. I kick my own ass instead of kicking other people's asses.
I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound good on it.
People say 'I don't want to die alone!' But you know what, honestly? I don't want to die with a bunch of people looking at me.
I think people are intimidated by me, and I don't know why. Sometimes even my own bandmates can be intimidated, or irritated, by me.
The same people that always think I'm pretentious will think I'm pretentious, and the people who relate to me will continue to relate to me.
In reality, I've probably got the lowest self-esteem of anybody I know, which has really been rubbed in my face lately in personal situations.
I need punk rock. It's the medicine for me, but it's bitter and sickening. If you don't need it - if you're happy and healthy - run toward that.
Audiences tend to dig the earlier stuff by any given musician, and the artists themselves always tend to prefer the thing that they're doing now.
I don't know if I have any real aspirations to be an actor. It was just something I was asked to do in sort of a friend way. And I thought, Why not?
Sometimes, I do have something to say, so I'll sit there and I'll write a song to someone - and then I just throw it away because it makes me cringe.
I'm real critical of myself. I think a lot of what I've done is boring indie rock. I didn't intend it to be that way, but somehow milk gets added to everything.
I know so many people think my music is quite influenced by Animal Collective, but honestly I think maybe the factor is that we're both influenced by the same stuff.
I refuse to put myself into a situation in which I have to face some kind of "I'm losing it" kind of thing. I'm not "losing it"; it's changed. What it is is changing.
I feel very strongly about the subject matter in The Dallas Buyer's Club - about AIDS and people fighting illnesses, and fighting for survival against bad conditions.
The sober guy is always going to have this air of arrogance or self-righteousness, but it's not my intention. I just knew that if I drank, I'd have a drinking problem.
We didn't have MTV, and I was desperate for something. You know, you're young, you want something off the beaten path. And Twin Peaks was like, surrealism on network TV.
I don't like the sound of my own voice. And, for people I don't know, their impression of me is what they read on the internet, and they're so far off a lot of the time.