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

The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.

Correlation across replicated environments adds a whole new dimension of complexity of the environment, ... You would expect most application groups to have the same set of policies. In reality, you have differences in policies. That reflects back to that whole process of manual storing in the environment.

Most of the songs that I appreciate are lyrically vague.

Pretty much any given day, barring some major distraction, I get melodies coming to me. Lyrics don't come quite as easily. So I've been inventing little projects and challenges to sort of kick my ass with the lyrics.

I create little challenges for myself, like, 'Okay, whatever you do in this song, you've got to somehow work in Greek Cypriots,' or something like that.

I think life is a wondrous thing. I'm happy to try pretty hard.