What you see with your eyes when you're making music is going to have a profound effect on what you hear.

I think life is a wondrous thing. I'm happy to try pretty hard.

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

A good espresso to me is a little bit salty; you just become used to a good taste. Anytime I go into a new place and they don't clean their machine properly or the water temperature isn't right, it tastes awful.

I haven't had that many people onstage for a while, and I'm looking forward to that. They're all such creative musicians in their own right. They're all complete individuals. They're not just a pick-up band. They all have their own thing going on.

There's been this perception that Europeans still hold on to, that they discover the real talented ones in American culture and give them proper credit and that's not true anymore - it used to be. A lot of jazz musicians would get respect in Europe.

I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.