The instrumental record is a bit subtler. It's the kind of stuff on sound check, when I first pick up my violin and start to play, the kind of melodies that just pour out of me. Some of them sound very classical. Some of them sound experimental, polyrhythmic loops that I make.

I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.

Sometimes I just think we're not meant to fly halfway around the world in a day. That some kind of mutation is going to happen.

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

When I start asking my friends, "What do you think this means?" And it leads to way more interesting conversations than what it actually ends up meaning in the dictionary. Like "apocryphal," for instance.

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

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