What you see at the Field Museum is only like, 10 percent of the collection. It's birds of paradise and passenger pigeons and in all these drawers that pull out, these specimens come out and it's spectacular. And it worked out.

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

What you see with your eyes when you're making music is going to have a profound effect on what you hear.

You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I’m going, or when I’ve lived in a place so long that there’s no chance I could possibly get lost.

I haven't had that many people onstage for a while, and I'm looking forward to that. They're all such creative musicians in their own right. They're all complete individuals. They're not just a pick-up band. They all have their own thing going on.

Sometimes I just think we're not meant to fly halfway around the world in a day. That some kind of mutation is going to happen.

I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.