"Piano was my first instrument, but it wasn't the instrument that I showed the most proficiency on."
"I never really had the chance to play the kind of music I wanted to play. It was always just classical. It had its limits. I play piano now and again in the new forms of music that I actually want to play, but at the time, it was something that I just kind of moved past."
"Being in the high-school band was some of the funnest years of my life."
"My roots in electronic music go from weird glitch music to now what's seen as pop music. Electronic music is pop music now."
"I just really liked those trumpets and horns - Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie - and I honed in on that. I always looked for those big horn lines."
"Everyone wants to grow, but I'm not trying to reinvent myself anytime soon."
"I haven't written my favorite song yet, and I hope I never do."
"I don't need more money. I don't need that to be happy."
"I feel like music is sort of therapy for myself."
"I loved playing the saxophone."
"Always focus on the music first. That's the big thing. Staying true to making good music and not sacrificing that for anything."
"My parents took a fairly liberal approach at raising me, always encouraging me to be creative and free-thinking."
"My brother has been, and will always be, my closest friend."
"There was so much pressure to fit in, I tried to force myself to be like everyone else. The last thing any teen wants is to be 'uncool.'"
"I was surprised how supportive my family and friends were in my coming out, and it gave and still gives me hope."
"The environment of San Francisco has so much history to it that I really appreciate. Musically, socially, and culturally. There's this new culture of people; it's a crazy place to be."
"There's no such thing as a bad Miyazaki film."
"I have a top 10 list of my favorite movies of all time, and just for the sake of not having my top 5 be entirely Miyazaki films, I had to pick one. So, right now, my favorite Miyazaki film is probably 'Princess Mononoke.'"
"I think it would be super, hella cool to hop into a cab & hear my song on the radio - like, 'Yeah!' - and also be like, 'Who is this Griz guy? He's horrible.' That'd be really cool."
"When I was a kid, I was a really bad collaborator. I was pretty introverted."
"I have always been very interested in thinking deeply about things. I do this a lot."
"You need to be able to communicate your feelings. We need to be able to do that to feel empowered."
"It is totally cool to be gay."
"My one experience with Lollapalooza was in 2009 - it was actually the first music festival I've ever been to."
"Zelda is the best solo game; Mario Cart is the best group game."
