I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I'll have my feelings guide my hands.

I approach my music-making as an art-form--something pure from the spirit to which I can add dynamics and marketable reality. Music is genuine and healthy and the stimulation I get from molding it and adding dynamics is like nothing else on earth.

I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.

I hate those old falsettos, I really do, and it's embarrassing since I've grown up.

I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records.

You're called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part.

If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.