I think it is all about creating characters, mixing them up with the stars and the light-years, and coming back to Earth, because we're from this universe. We're not just New York or London; we're stars.

When you have a lot of fake selves, most of the time it's because you haven't had parents around so you try to build characters to protect yourself.

William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician.

Composing was more difficult than writing things down.

If I'm being forced to do something I don't want to do, my real self comes out. But whether or not I'm aware of it, no matter what happens, I'm always going to have a fake self and I'm not going to judge my fake self.

People take things too literal in the Bible and it's totally wrong.

We're all competent in different ways, we've just got to find a way to push ourselves up more.