I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.
Maybe one day I'll write my rock album so I can use more obscure references and just be weird. If the lyrics are too crazy, though, then it's not pop anymore.
I'm not worried about repeating myself - I'm more worried that I'd just get bored.
I'm so bad at lyrics. I'm always trying to get better. Sometimes, the song can restrict your lyrics - if you're trying to make a poppy song, you don't want to sing something that sounds like it could be on an At the Drive-In song.
Once you move in with your significant other, you have to become a combination of each other.
Identity politics are becoming less important since culture's being blended into one big thing - I look at kids' Tumblrs and they're all into the same things.
I see a lot of people of color in my fanbase and at all my shows, and it's really awesome.
As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in the segregated section of a train. The first time I had been seated behind a curtain in a dining car, I felt as if the curtain had been dropped on my selfhood.
Love the people with whom fate brings you together
Great griefs medicine the less.
London was a really multi-racial city. . . It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there.