I can be a really awkward frontman on stage.

It's just a very weird thing to have a relationship that's commented on by the world wide web.

I always had really, really bad nightmares, like night terrors or whatever they're called. I used to wake up in the middle of the night and not be able to move... I'd hallucinate and have really scary visions and dreams, so I wouldn't want to sleep.

I think kids are all focused on their hierarchy and status, and I was low status or something.

I think anything that happens to you between the ages of zero to 18, and probably further on, has a lasting impact on you.

Normal is not a thing. No one's actually normal.

I don't want to be normal, I don't want to grow up.

I was obsessed with Jeff Buckley for a while - I was convinced that Jeff Buckley and I were communicating with each other through time.

I had such intense self-loathing for so long.

My sexuality is part of my music, part of my identity.

I had what would now be called sleep paralysis, from six years old until maybe I was 16.

My dad had been very absent, even when he was there. Then he left the family and moved away. Our relationship, it feels to me, ended when I was 13.

Solitude is very restorative for me, especially because I spend so much time around other people and performing to people.

I'm not saying that being straight is easy, but when you're gay, you don't really have a familial network or support system. You have to find that.

I identify as a gay man all the time, but I also like to identify as queer.

We have to listen and learn from each other to lift each other up, so we can all live the life we deserve.

There's entrenched homophobia behind the scenes at all levels of the music industry.

I've been taking medication for depression and anxiety ever since I was a teenager and I've had treatment for both.

I genuinely do want the world to change in a positive way, but I wouldn't call myself an activist, you know? I'm an entertainer who engages with activism because it feels really meaningful for me.

Personally, I've always been ashamed of my body and I've hated being so skinny - I had an eating disorder for so long.

I like the muted sounds, the shroud of grey, and the silence that comes with fog.

We live in crazy times - that is true - and things have gotten crazier, but it still doesn't feel like the turn of the century.

Fog is my weakness, and every time there is low fog, I am out and about with my camera.

Augmented reality is the 'boy who cried wolf' of the post-Internet world - it's long been promised but has rarely been delivered in a satisfying way.

For me, stories are like Lego blocks. If I don't put one down, I can't put the next one down.

Finding your soul begins by discovering our ability to listen! Alternatively, by sharing a smile, a laugh and just by being human to everyone - from friends, colleagues, family, and especially strangers, including those who are not from the same station in life as you.

Social sharing of photos - landscapes, selfies, latte-foam art - can spark conversations and deeper engagements.

Most competition in Silicon Valley now heads toward there being one monopolistic winner.

We are splintering what was the 'camera' and its functionality - lens, sensors, and processing - into distinct parts, but, instead of lenses and shutters, software and algorithms are becoming the driving force.

When I look at Kickstarter, I see small businesses that have been funded by their customers. I see the acceleration of this shift away from the industrial manufacturing ideology to more of a maker economy. And I also see an idea so powerful that the company name has become a verb.

In a way, digital cameras were like very early personal computers such as the Commodore 64 - clunky and able to do only a few things.

Some media companies that rely on advertising revenue are tying journalist compensation to the traffic their story generates. It doesn't work because it de-prioritizes writing.

There is better than a good chance that while relaxing on a beach somewhere or sipping a martini in your favorite lounge, you have heard music that makes raise your eyebrow and ask, 'What kind of music is that?'

When it comes to the mobile web, the technology industry seems to be split between two camps - native apps and HTML5 web-based apps.

There are days when I look at my news feed, and it seems like a social fabric of fun - a video of the first steps of my friends' baby! My nephew's prom date! On other days, it feels like a NASCAR vehicle, plastered with news stories, promoted posts, lame Live videos, and random content.

Facebook has gone from a nice-and-boring social network to becoming an identity layer of the web. It is where nearly a billion people are depositing the artifacts of civilization in the 21st century - photos, videos, and birthday wishes.

On my end, I am still surprised that many media organizations are unable to adapt to new media formats and, more importantly, new network behaviors.

Unlike Facebook or Instagram, Twitter's core experience isn't about photos. It's a world of text, with occasional embedded photos, animated gifs, and short video clips.

QR codes have always been a kind of half-measure, a useful but inelegant transitional technology; the ultimate goal is augmented reality.

I worry about Google's data ethics and about the idea of handing over the corpus of my life, but I can't deny that it is exceptional at making sense of my ever-growing photo library.

The early entrants into the world of A.R., as with its cousin virtual reality, were disappointing: the phones were too weak, the networks were too slow, and the applications were too nerdy. But now the technological pieces are in place, and a whole generation - much of which is on Snapchat - has come to consider the camera almost a third arm.

Ideally, Facebook would take all our clicks and information and would magically give us everything we want, without us even knowing we want it.

For a while, I have had this theory that we, as a society, are coming to the end of the mass production, industrial phase of the human race.

Apple has always been, and always will be, a hardware-first company. It produces beautiful devices with elegant designs and humane operating-system software.

From analog film cameras to digital cameras to iPhone cameras, it has become progressively easier to take and store photographs. Today, we don't even think twice about snapping a shot.

Our economy, for a long while, has been transitioning from one reliant on industrial strength to one based on digital information. The next step in this transition is a digital economy shaped by connectivity.

As an online journalist, newswire journalist, newspaper writer, I wrote every day. My whole thing was, 'I have to write and report and write every day.' That was my thing.

Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft are building their own versions of the future. And they get bigger and bigger.

Twitter is short-form, real-time, and text-based. It's built for instant alerts and rapid consumption. It is an ideal system for delivering sips of information from an abundant stream.

The marriage of computing and connectivity without the shackles of being tethered to a location is one of the biggest disruptive forces of modern times.