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.

A day off after a show with no agenda in a foreign city is about the most fertile creative situation I can imagine. Just walking with nothing to do, killing time and hearing the sights and sounds of an unfamiliar place.

People who are thinking about your music almost as much as you are, that almost never happens.

With digital sound just becomes simply information, not the sum of its parts.

Songwriting requires some sort of ceremony to even get the process started, and it can be somewhat arbitrary.

I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.