I really believe there's more honesty in one live show than there may be in my whole output.

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?

You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio.

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

The melodies come out so strong that I'm like, "Oh, crap." It's really better if they could both be kind of able to compromise, but the melodies, even more recently, they come out very fully cast and formed.

Just don't let the human factor fail to be a factor at all

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