There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.

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 have some irrepressible pop impulses to write an appealing, concise song. And I also have some irrepressible kind of restlessness as well, and I need to keep myself interested. When I'm left to my own devices, there's a struggle.

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.

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

I really believe there's more honesty in one live show than there may be in my whole output.

I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin.