But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want your listener to hear.

And frankly, when I made that record, hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve.

I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.

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

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

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.

Lately I've been a workaholic. I'm in the studio all the time and I've helped to produce a couple of artists