If you knew me before Myspace, you'd probably thought I'd have been a scholar teaching philosophy in a university my whole life. If you met me before college, you'd probably have thought I'd be a musician for my entire life.

I don't know exactly where my life will lead. Adventure and the unknown has always been appealing to me.

I wanted to make a place for filmmakers and artists to come and ‘do their stuff,' but I didn't expect it to have had the impact that it has."

Anything you do on the Internet, I want you to be able to do on MySpace. That's the goal and ambition.

I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.

I always squirm when I read what's called 'creative nonfiction,' and the writer is lobbing gobs of emotion and language at the world, hoping some of it will stick.

I’d always been a kid that loved literature, reading, writing - anything to do with words - so music was just a path."

There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in.