I don't like to disappear between records. I like to play shows while I'm making the record.

I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin.

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

The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.

There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.

I've literally opened it up to suggestions and it's totally chaotic and kind of a bad idea. You don't need the actual feedback to get a sense. When you're showing a song for the first time, people can feel that newness.

The orchestra's an amazing instrument, but I don't want to just arrange my songs for it. I think that might be kind of boring and a little bit overdramatic, perhaps. I'm still just having too much fun doing it my way, for the time being.