I’m trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.

I feel like I’ve been way overexposed in the press. I’d rather play shows and represent myself in person.

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.

The most important thing in my father’s life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom.

I like songs that go to different places and then come back.

I’m not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We’re talking about a Mozart of rock music.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.

I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.

I try not to do anything by formula.

Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist.

Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It’s not something that just comes in a dream. You’ve got to work at it.

I’m trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.

I like music because it’s the only invisible art form.

Making films is great. You’ve got 100 people around and you’re all dressing up and making weird art-it’s a fun group activity.

The work I’ve done, I’m really feeling the effects of it.

My tendency is to be very experimental.

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

I’m not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I’m doing everything as it happens. I’m just trying my best.

Now, music almost feels naked in my mind.

There’s no single movement out there. It’s not like in the ’60s, when Revolver came out and that’s just it for the next year.

I did a record with a producer, and the good producers eat up the budget, so I didn’t have any budget left to produce this record. I had to produce it myself.

I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.

Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn’t realize that it’s so much work.

I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.

I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That’s how I live my life.

For me, songwriting is something I have to do ritually. I don’t just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.

It’s a bit embarrassing watching myself, but I couldn’t get someone else to play me, that would’ve been stupid.

Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I’m really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen.

I’m lucky that a lot of my friends are in the entertainment industry.