I mean, at the end of the day when I'm making a record, what I want to do is what I do

But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment

I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that.

Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records

I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit

Things come to me pretty regularly. There is never a shortage or a backlog

I think in a way I was probably completely naive about what it takes to make something become a hit