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

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

Anyway, I'm digressing, but this is just kind of this 10-and-a-half-minute, ambient - you hear cicadas and birds and the wind outside and crickets as I'm swelling the piece. I could never do that on a pop record. I could, but why would I want to be agitating?

I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.

The weirdest time is when I'm having to explain myself all day to journalists, and then I don't perform, so there's no release, just a lot of self-consciousness. Then what do you do with that at the end of the day? How do you release your brain from talking about yourself all day?

The anti-aging advert that I would like to see is a baby covered in cream saying, 'Aah, I've used too much'

There's songs that could either be taken as a conversation between two people, like "The Privateers," or "Why," from a much earlier record. Or "Glass Figurine." That's my version of a relationship song.