Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.

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

I wake up in the morning and I say 'Ahh! Today's the day for a song! I'm going to write a song today!' And I do. I write a song.

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

I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there's a lot to be said for that way of thinking.

I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often.

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.