I took piano lessons when I was a little kid, but even before that, you're singing in the classroom and wherever. Gosh, children are always singing. But I took music lessons, some choir and things like that at school. I learned how to play the guitar when I was about 13... ancient history.

I think a master craftsman is someone who is unpretentious. He has a physical object in front of him and, while he works with a higher aim, he doesn't let his personality get in the way of his art. It's simply about the task at hand and to make it as functional and necessary to the world as he can.

Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best. To make it about the artist and to dwell upon biographical information can only make it singular, and I am really, really disgusted by that.

I don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone.

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

When I was young, I used to go to Baha'i camp, and they taught me a lot about the equality of religions.

I think I try to do a lot of things to weed out casual fans.