"I always want to create and do things, or draw."

"If it's good music, it's good music."

"Writing music is just like writing a book."

"Nothing really scares me, to be honest."

"I love movement. I love moshing."

"I hate the idea of genres."

"I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora's 'Runaway' music video. Something inside me clicked, like, 'That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.'"

"I felt like, for so many years - and I still even feel it - as a girl, you can't really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud."

"I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, 'What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?' I get what you're saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel."

"Me and my brother get along super well. We're, like, best friends. So we'll stay up until, like, five just talking because we get along and, you know, it's cool. And he respects my opinions, and I respect his, even if we don't have the same opinions, but a lot of the time we do."

"I work with my brother Finneas, and he produces all of my music in his little bedroom in our house. We actually tried renting out a studio for a month when we were producing 'Don't Smile at Me,' but it was really hard there, and we ended up just doing it at home anyway."

"I'm a really artistic person, and so, with the live stuff, there's a lot that I think is really cool. Beyonce and Rihanna have all these dancers. So with the live costumes and video costumes, I'd really like to have my vision. The way that I want people to dress is very specific. I love fashion."

"Being an artist doesn't just mean you have a song. That doesn't make you an artist. The word 'artist' means so many different things, and I feel like to be a real one, you really have to do it all. The people that I think of as artists - Tyler the Creator, Childish Gambino, Kanye West - are doing the most."

"I don't want people at my shows to come out and say, 'I just saw a cool show.' I want them to say, 'I had fun at the show.' I want it to be a collaborative thing and be part of the audience and have them be part of me. I try to interact with everyone there and have them be equal to me because they are."

"'Bellyache' is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren't real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don't know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you."

"We didn't have a movie theatre until I was about nine, so I just didn't see them. But, once I got into movies I loved them."

"I know that I loved music before I loved movies, simply because I didn't see movies as a kid."

"Comedy is harder than drama, because with comedy you're expecting a result..you make them laugh. [If] they ain't laughing then you're screwed."

"After you've done 60-something movies, you're always looking for something different."

"I know it's boring to say this but I always start with the script. I mean if it's well written and it's a character that I haven't necessarily played before."

"Sometimes we don't want the bad guy to get caught because otherwise the story is over. You want to at least see it through to the end."

"I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career."

"If someone is talking to you and tells you that you ought to do something, and you can tell they mean it, those are the scary people. Those are the people you want to watch out for."

"You read something and you just feel this makes sense. And sometimes before you even read it you have a feeling that yeah, I'm probably gonna do this one."

"I actually am a phobic twitchy sort of nervous guy."

"I got in drama class in high school and I only got in there because there were girls and I thought maybe I could make a grade above a C in something."

"LA has its own vibe. It has a charm that a lot of people overlook sometimes."

"You can't knock a place where you realized your dreams."

"I love acting with all my heart and I love music with all my heart."

"My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too."

"Sometimes I have songs born out of stories."

"Songwriting and screenwriting aren't that different to me."

"Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story."

"People's attention spans are a little shorter these days. Same thing with food and movies."

"[The lyrics and melody] usually come a little simultaneously, but I would say the lyrics are first; usually I have the idea for a story in my head, or few lines."

"I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it."

"I generally have lyrics first, but you can't help that when you're writing lyrics you start to get a melody in your head. So they come kind of simultaneously."

"I think Americana music is music that is generally more singer/songwriter oriented. It has more to do with the songwriting. The music, it's more like stories set to music."

"When I was coming up in the '80s television, if you were on television that meant either you were a young actor just coming up like I was, or you were an older actor whose career was over and you had to go on television."

"I don't see anything wrong with a cell phone. That's great. You have a flat tire in the middle of the night; it works better than digging in your pocket for a quarter and looking for a payphone eight miles down the road."

"Life is magical and I guess my thing is I wish that people wanted that magic."

"I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture."

"These days and times you can't do eclectic records. In the '60s you could, but not anymore."

"I figured I would have to tell someone to kiss my ass before it was all over, and I have -- twice."

"Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing."

"People a lot of times say that you know it must be hard to direct yourself. That's a myth. It's easier to direct yourself. There's no middle man, you know."

"You want to know the hardest thing about being smart? What? I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense."

"I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers."

"Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory."

"Playing normal-looking characters really intimidatesme. I got into acting to play anyone but me."