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I think for new artists the hardest thing is putting the face with a name. People maybe heard our song on the radio or something but until they get several impressions of who you are - from whatever it is, whether TV or a live show, I feel like they don't quite connect the dots.

People always want to put a label on you; they always want to compare you to something.

If you're buying an album because of the face on it, you're stupid.

I don't think shoving my butt into people's faces will tell them anything about who I am. How is that connecting to your audience? What is that doing for your music?

You have this special connection with someone if you're their first record or their first concert or their first poster or whatever it is.

Our names are an integral part of the faces we show to the world. If we're judged first on outward appearances, we're assessed next on our names.

Generally, when a record label suggests album ideas for you, you smile politely, and then proceed to shoot it down, because it's never what you as an artist feel is right for you.

I hate labels; the problem is that if you say you're one thing, it's hard for people to imagine you as something else. Music is way more complicated than that.

People label you the way they know you best.