I've always been interested in an idea of boundless love - an impersonal, big love.

To me, craft work is the ultimate. Maybe I got this idea from the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, who was employed as a sculptor to the state and church, making coins and things. While he admired Michelangelo, he also made fun of his spiritual angst with art.

Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.

I think I have some very meaningful relationships with people; we all do. At the same time, I recognize that everyone is following their own heart; there's been people who have left my life, and I don't have a problem with that. This is a transitory world; we're all spirits just looking for love and finding it and holding on.

People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos.

I have been singing as long as I can remember. I used to be in choir; I used to do musical theater. I'd prefer not to sing my own songs, but there you have it.

People just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.