It's amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.

It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.

I think that sex, drugs, art and religion very much overlap with one another and sometimes one becomes another.

Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

I want to make things that put me in the position of innocence, that recreate the feeling of innocence in you.

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.