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

I'm a terrible Scrabble player.

It's not set in stone. I like to keep it rolling and changing, and so I am like, "Great, I get to remake my song."

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

The instrumental record is a bit subtler. It's the kind of stuff on sound check, when I first pick up my violin and start to play, the kind of melodies that just pour out of me. Some of them sound very classical. Some of them sound experimental, polyrhythmic loops that I make.

Every time I make a record, it's kind of like scarification or something. You work 15 hours until you're stupid. You're just kind of all jittery.

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.