"I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'"

"To me, art supplies are always okay to buy."

"It's more fun to experience things when you don't know what's going to happen."

"I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out."

"Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it."

"Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did."

"I struggle to be brief, and I become obscure."

"It is a profound truth that knowledge is the gathering of scattered facts; wisdom is the synthesis of lived experience."