When you actually make a new friend, and you make music and laugh really hard together, that can give you a lot of confidence and nourishment and encouragement.

It's been a growth process for each of us to understand why we find certain things beautiful. And if we do find something beautiful, we'll chase it, because you want to understand yourself and what your psyche is creating.

You become more animalistic when you don't know what's coming next - you have to be on guard, but at the same time you're also more receptive.

First thought, best thought. I live by that when I make my own music.

I try to get my subconscious to puke out as much stuff as I can because I'm really not judging myself while making music.

Only after a piece of music is done does my frontal cortex allow me to organize what might be trying to come out of my subconscious.

There is also a particular frustration that I have with language. It's so clumsy. And the reason I'm feeling that is more because on your breathing and your intonation than the actual words.