Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact. If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it.

I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place.

I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating something I'm good at. So I'm always looking for new challenges.

Sometimes in Portland I'm like, 'Who is funding this city?' It's doing great - there's all these new shops; there's a synthesizer store. Where is this coming from?

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.

I've always had a teenage thread running through my music.

Growing up in Chicago, there was a very particular type of home that would display the black Jesus figure. It wasn't a radical home. You wouldn't find these in a Black Panther house. There's still a strong allegiance to Christianity.