If somebody ever says something is a mature theme, it's bound to not be. I mean, you shouldn't fall for that. You can make it sound mature, but anything that's about being mature is pretty immature.

The music usually occurs to me as a complete sound, and then I have developed the skill of being able to translate that into a fully realized song.

I still have a very nonintellectual, nonjudgmental relationship with melody and the music as I hear it all in my head.

I know when somebodys heard my music. I can hear it in their music.

From day one, I was already famous in my own head. It didn't take anything to make me feel that way. I know I'm totally not famous. I mean, it just depends on your perspective.

I've learned that I shouldn't shrink from success. Though honestly I thought they'd be knocking on my door years ago.

The things that keep me awake at night are things like textures and instrumentation and plotting out what things are going to do and what the sounds are that I'm trying to capture.