ANDREW W.K.

It's my responsibility to show people that this music is something they can trust in and believe in, and it's not a joke. It's not anything but 100 percent from my heart.

I think it's so completely bizarre and arrogant for anyone to ever think that they could lose their innocence, because that implies that they have some sense, some idea of what's going on, and no one has any idea what's going on.

I truly believe that listening to music can transform you into a better person.

I love Turner Network television; I love Adult Swim. That's actually how I got my start on Cartoon Network was through Adult Swim, originally. I had a special appearance on 'Aqua Teen Hunger Force!'

I'm a guy who wants to party and have as many adventures as possible.

Reading counts as partying, even if you're not enjoying it! Even if someone's forcing you to read, you can find a way to make it into a party if you party hard enough. It just takes more effort and a more advanced approach.

In fine arts, when you make a painting, it's just a painting. But if you make a painting in the entertainment industry, it can be an album cover or a t-shirt or a logo.

I always wanted to be cheered up. I felt like that feeling of the first day of summer or when a girl would agree to go on a date or you found a $20 bill - that undeniable rush of excitement - I wanted to make a soundtrack of music for that kind of moment.

In general, I feel like when I've associated with someone, the association has elevated me and perhaps lowered the other person.

No one controlled Frank Sinatra or told him how to sing. No secret group of managers has been telling someone like Jay-Z what to do or how to look. And no one tells me what to do except me and the people who believe in me.

It seems like your dreams are your own spirit, your own soul, telling you what you're meant to do and getting you psyched up with the idea of thinking that it was your idea all along.

I usually don't try to meet people at all, especially if I really like them, for all kinds of reasons.

You can magically alter your life if you believe hard enough and then take actual physical action in the world outside your brain to make it happen.

I don't use Twitter to share my thoughts - I use it to make statements that are quite blunt and hopefully fun.

If someone said, 'What was anything you could wish for,' it would have been to have Donald Tardy in my band as my drummer.

How could you not let your life affect your work? That's all it is. Unless you have a very specific, isolated version of what you're doing.

Life changes, and thus, partying changes, and what it means to party evolves as well.

I don't have tattoos other than lines.

I'm not proud of this at all, but I'm someone who has relied on business managers and accountants and career managers to run the whole bureaucratic side of my life for the last 16 years, so anything, from filing tax returns to paying credit card statements, is something that I feel rather fortunate to have been out of the loop on.

I have not been a big fan of very sweet drinks, although the Manhattan cocktail is a favorite of mine.

A lot of times, adults confuse growing up or becoming more mature with a sense of seriousness, a sense of boringness, a sense of just stupidness.

You can't want an amazing life and then resent it when it happens to you. Destiny has very little to do with what you think and what you want to do and even what you might like.

I think J. S. Bach's music stands among humankind's greatest accomplishments. For me, Bach's music is not only as good as music gets but also as good as it gets, period - as good as existence, reality, life, and the world.

So I definitely think I've gotten much, much, much better at partying and having fun the older I've gotten.

Andrew W.K. is about partying and doing what you want!