I'm not even sure what I want, but that's not the point - it's that I want it now.

Some people can't physically hear things. A kid that listens to Metallica or something can't hear that, because he's filled himself up with this stuff, he physically can't hear a banjo or a harp or something.

Imagination is a powerful deceiver.

Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.

And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.

Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.

Anything that has to travel all the way down from your cerebellum to your fingertips, there's a lot of things that can happen on the journey. Sometimes I'll listen to records, my own stuff, and I think god, the original idea for this was so much better than the mutation that we arrived at.