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I don't have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.

I know who I am and what I'm doing in my life and what I've accomplished and continue to accomplish as a performer, as a writer, as an artist, as a person, as a human being.

I see myself as an entertainer.

I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.

I have a lot of respect for all the artists I get compared to, even if, as an artist, you prefer to have your own identity.

I'm lucky enough to be able to make films and so I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears and all those things with my work. That's an enormous privilege. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something.

The thing that keeps me being a performer is my interest in society's obsession with identity, because I'm not sure that I really believe identity exists.

I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

I've always been a performer. I love doing impressions of people and being the clown.