Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.

I actually find something rewarding about that tension between satisfying myself and satisfying others. Because first of all, I can't provide my own structure, and that tension provides a structure for me to actually work within.

I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.

It's a very nice thing to have a baby.

I think the people that are best at something, they don't think about it much. That's the whole key to being good at anything.

I don't waste a lot of time on profound embarrassment. I have always been somewhat the same person. I can think of maybe particular items of clothing that I think, "Oh God, I used to wear that?" But nothing serious. It's not like for a while I became some sort of goth wannabe. I've always pretty much been me.

If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.