I want people to know me in my home state. I want their approval.

I'm not growing out my hair just to be androgynous.

You should always read the ingredients in coconut water. It should say 100% coconut water.

Most of the time, it's pretending I'm somebody else to get into a different head space. A lot of times, it's just, 'Who do I want to be onstage tonight? Is it going to be Marc Bolan, or is it going to be Grace Jones, or Roy Orbison?'

I was pretty young when my folks were playing those kinds of records, '70s rock and psychedelic stuff. So I just remember those songs being synonymous with my childhood, and I was always trying to imitate them on piano.

We're always trying to make advancements in the arts and technology, so it's somewhat inevitable that we're going to make holograms of people.

When I wrote 'Dopamine,' I was so enamored by Los Angeles and finally making music I was really excited about.

My parents played the Bee Gees; Earth, Wind & Fire; Michael Jackson. The best pop music to infiltrate a child's mind.

I dance as best I can. I try to let the music flow freely through my legs.

Oakland has always had artists attempting to define the immense beauty and ridiculousness around them.

There's the part of me that's the organizer, part of me that's the artist, part of me that's the person who, even with those two things, wants to figure out what my place in the world is. How to engage with it and whether my life has any meaning.

I think art is communication. To that extent, it can be the words between the words. It has a possibility of communicating something more than people can do with prose or just talking.

A lot of libertarians and ultra-capitalists like to put out this idea that competition makes for better creativity. But it's just because we don't see all the creativity that's been crushed.

You make art, you make it from what you know, and that's the best way to make art. You get lost in the details and make something that feels like it's yours.

Art can end up answering questions or asking questions. But when it's not connected to actual movements, it doesn't ask the right questions.

What I like about music is that you make a song, you've got your ideas in it, and people make that song part of their life - they hang out with their friends to it, they get in arguments to it, they get married to it, they get divorced to it. It's in their world, and it takes on its own life.

Going to school in San Francisco, you're not going to meet as many people that are making films as you would if you went to film school in New York or L.A.

I was actually really good at telemarketing.

That punk approach of 'We don't wanna get big' is really a bourgeois thing. It's not a tactic of people that actually have been successful at changing things.

The tech world is not a new phenomenon; it's a new era.

This idea of 'cool capitalism' is still capitalism. It doesn't matter if Elon Musk quotes Nas.

I chose to do art in the way I always do it, which is with all the crazy contradictions of life in there.

Sometimes my influences are really on my sleeve. So I just make sure to wear a lot of sleeves.

My father is from North Carolina, and he got rid of his drawl really fast. He's very much about speaking correctly, enunciating in certain ways.