All these people that want to make me out as part of Generation X had better watch out, or they're going to get X'd out themselves.

I don't want my reputation to take me over, I just want to be judged on my songs. I want people to come and see me because they want to, not because fashion dictates it.

You're not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.

There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work.

I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks.

The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather.