I always appreciate when people save, and more importantly, share. As we speak, there are people in this world - mostly men - who have giant collections of recordings that no one will ever hear. And the value of that collection is almost defined by the fact that nobody else can hear it.

Now anyone can move anywhere. I've made deep connections with people around the world since I tour everywhere that I will simply never see again.

The amount of money that people spend on saving stuff, they try to feed you this idea that it's more important.

First of all, [St. Stephen's] is a radical church. It was one of the first DC churches to have gay ceremonies. A woman said mass there, which almost got a priest excommunicated there; Black Panthers spoke at the church; it was a sanctuary for civil rights protesters and anti-war protesters.

We're on tour for six months out of the year.

I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.

It's so interesting that humanity has to be defined by emotional strife or something. I don't buy into that.