If you make a strange, eccentric record - like the Velvet Underground's 'White Light/White Heat' - it takes on its own mood because it's less about a shrewd marketing plan; it's more about an individual emotion.

I think all food except for maybe pizza and Mexican food is better in Japan.

With every performance I just feel more energized somehow. Like, this is how I exercise! This is how I feed my ego, by playing this loud rock music.

Don Henley is real fallback for awfulness.

My experience with Dino Jr. proved that making new music was a worthwhile pursuit.

At 12 or 13, I picked up a guitar because my mother made me learn how to play.

I love Devo. There's nothing not to like.

Harmony Korine, the screenwriter, was really into my early work. I did a lot of stuff under the name Sentridoh and a lot of 4-track cassette stuff that he was into.

Everybody talking about being afraid of being boring is boring. You have to go for the real substance of life after awhile.

It's really cool to come from nothing and essentially be a nobody and make yourself somebody.

My mother was a good woman.

I was so scared because I was thought I had to work, work, work, because I thought I might only be around for five years. I thought I wasn't good enough to last.

Sometimes I watch movies. I don't party. I don't go out. It's just me and my homies in our circle. I stay away from everyone and everything so I can just continue to remain who I am.

I'm very weird with my money.

I love movies. I own, like, every movie, ever.

I'm no longer the young guy in No I.D.'s studio asking for Kanye beats.

I think if you pick up a microphone and you rap, you're a rapper.

I'm the kind of guy who'll go to a courthouse and get married, but for women, it's different. It means a lot to them.

If you listen to a woman, you'll know what she wants.

I'm a relationship guy. I'm not about that 'rapper life.'

Everyone is beautiful, and the world isn't equal - and we need to fight towards that.

Lyricism is about painting a picture. It doesn't have to be a bunch of punchlines.

It wasn't the best childhood, but I did my best to make it good on my end... I didn't let it pull me down.

I sacrificed a lot of things growing up.