I feel fortunate about being able to make the music I want to make and getting away with it

I'm a pretty big P.J. Harvey record fan and you can really hear New York in his record

I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that

If I were to do this over I'd play a lot more shows before I made a record

I privilege the music over the lyrics

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

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