As long as I can buy records and books and maybe some clothes, I'm pretty stoked. I don't need a yacht or anything.

There's a major underlying idea as you grow up that you need to just save your money and get that affordable housing at the edge of town where you're away from the city where all the crime happens or whatever.

I want to be enriched by the music I listen to. That's the reason it never really exists in the mainstream. Because that's not what most people are after.

The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.

Popular music is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world.

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.

There's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road.