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" David Lynch is my friend, and I love his movies and his art and his music. Few things make me happier than working with him. "

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" I buy things with the best of intention of living in them and then life intercedes. "

" There's a fairly extensive network of musicians on tour who are all trying to stay sober, and we generally reach out to each other and offer support when and where we can. "

" But at the same time, I don't let myself regret things to the point that I'm paralyzed. "

" Shaving your head is acceptable. It's when you start wearing toupees and brushing your hair over that things go wrong. "

" Some of the songs I've made, I'm really disappointed in how I mixed them. "

" I feel like once the song is done, you put it out there and if people want to do bizarre remixes, if people want to make strange videos, great. You know, like chaos theory applied to the music business. "

" When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea. "

" I don't sleep very well when I travel. And as a result, I tend to be awake in cities when everyone else is asleep. "

" I wish I could sing. I don't technically have a terrible voice, but it's certainly not as good as most of my friends. Whenever I hear myself on a record, it just reminds me I'm not a very good singer. "

" Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn. "

" I joined Facebook purely so I could play online Scrabble. You have eight tiles instead of seven, so you tend to have higher scores. I'm somewhere between 400 and 500. "

" The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine. "

" I'm envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer. "

" There is nothing terribly wrong with my face, even if some of its parts aren't very inspiring. "

" There is a lot of music in the world that I love that does not always get the appropriate exposure. "

" I'll look through 'Us Weekly' and I'll see a picture of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anniston. And I'm like, 'Wow, they just... they look so good. Even if they're like just wearing jeans and a t-shirt, they still look great.' "

" Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise. "

" I've worked with all sorts of random people - everybody from Metallica to Britney Spears to Ozzy Osbourne to Michael Jackson to the Beastie Boys. I've got a really strange CV. It's interesting - I work with a lot of these disparate, different people to learn what it's like to work with random people. "

" I like tea and yoga, but I don't do yoga. "

" I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance. "

" I live in New York and I love hanging out in gay clubs, and a lot of my friends are gay. But, for better or for worse, I'm not gay. "

" Scotland is one of my favourite places to perform: it's really something special. Scottish audiences are just so enthusiastic; their approach to dance music just feels similar to my own somehow. "

" I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City. "

" A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that I'm some sort of glamorous lothario, but I was raised by women - my mother and her mother and my aunts - and as a result, most of my friends have always been women. "

" Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants. "

" The strange thing about hotel rooms is that they look familiar and seem familiar and have many of the accoutrements that seem domestic and familiar, but they are really weird, alien and anonymous places. "

" You make mistakes and you learn from them. "

" When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands. "

" I don't think there's anything wrong with not knowing how to play an instrument, but the rise of the non-musical producer has done away with musicianship and focused attention purely on the song's hook. "

" Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works. "