I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Science's job is to map our ignorance.

One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

We do express our emotions, our reactions to events, breakups and infatuations, but the way we do that - the art of it - is in putting them into prescribed forms or squeezing them into new forms that perfectly fit some emerging context. That’s part of the creative process, and we do it instinctively; we internalize it, like birds do. And it’s a joy to sing, like the birds do.