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

I definitely have to give myself permission, like on "Master Swarm," to rip a lead on that. Just play a violin solo that's - it's a bit showoff-y, but it's fun, so who cares?

I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.

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.

Sometimes the word dictated the melody.

The earth almost looks like it's packed down and dense from so many feet treading over it.

I really like the sound of analog things where clearly there's something being touched. You can sense that something is handmade. So much with digital, there's a disconnect.