"My answer to that is to keep writing music that I think is important. I think there's an element of people when they hear the truth, they respond to it"
"I think it was the start of me becoming more interested in works that had explicit theatrical elements and a legible kind of quasi-narrative element. And it was really a chance for me to really see how versatile I could be as a performer."
"It was not necessarily related to what is or is not here in Los Angeles. It was just something that I felt I needed to do as a person of Jewish extraction."
"I'm not on the fence. I'm on the side of the people who are in prison and who have left prison. People who realize this is a larger system, like the machine in the Kafka story."