With digital sound just becomes simply information, not the sum of its parts.

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

I'm not a home-studio guy. I spend a lot of time working by myself developing songs, but I really need some other counterpart to help me pull it all together, because you go nuts working if I had to finish an entire project all within my own head.

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

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?

Most of the songs that I appreciate are lyrically vague.

I've never approached classical music in a formal way, ever. I couldn't read very well. I'd have to play every piece and internalize it, almost as if I had written it myself.