I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.

People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.