I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.

Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.

I can't think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying.

I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.

I've been doing four-track songs by myself since I was like a teenager, where I'd sing in a way that I ... I just didn't think other people would like it, so I didn't play it for them but eventually I got over that, which I'm happy that I did, because it's kind of a drag to be playing a kind of music that you don't really like as much as another kind.

I don’t think it’s important who I am. I really like playing music, but I don’t really want to be anything in particular.

I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination decides it needs to take a nap. maybe that's what it needs to do.

I think the suggestion that all my songs are personal is insulting because that assumes that I have a bunch of issues that I feel the need to unload on strangers. That is not the case. It also assumes that I just talk about myself the whole time which, again, is not true.

People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it'd be hard for them to be convincing.