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.

The music that I write is often not necessarily full of doom and gloom. You'll notice in most of the darkest songs, the music is actually pretty peaceful and lulling.

No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.

There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.

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

Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.

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.