Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.

The real drag is trying to fly from country to country, day of show, with all your gear. You get hassled all the time. It's hard trying to keep it together.

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 just pay attention to what's in my head. That's my number-one rule.

I put a lot into my records, and I won't release anything I'm not totally thrilled with.

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.

Most of the songs that I appreciate are lyrically vague.