All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

The problem is, when you're working with orchestras, you only get the orchestra for about two hours before the performance to pull it all together, and that doesn't sound like a real collaboration.

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

I'm a terrible Scrabble player.

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

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

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