If you take a little time, let's say three weeks off, after recording a song, and you listen to it every other day, you're just going to know eventually.

All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.

The orchestra's an amazing instrument, but I don't want to just arrange my songs for it. I think that might be kind of boring and a little bit overdramatic, perhaps. I'm still just having too much fun doing it my way, for the time being.

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

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.

The anti-aging advert that I would like to see is a baby covered in cream saying, 'Aah, I've used too much'