The congregation that I was raised in was one that sang and a non-instrumental fashion. It was all a cappella singing, and so that had a major influence on me.

The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.

We share something in common with the fabric of the whole universe that connects us.

[My grandfather] was very, very fortunate that he was never trapped in a mining cave-in. But he lost his brother in a mining disaster on a shift that he wasn't working. And he was in a collapse where his brother-in-law was killed very near him in the same section.

Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for me.

Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.

However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.