When you have humor, you have a base for collaboration. It is very important.

I always talk about the hierarchy of art, and I always put music on the top of everything, because it's so immaterial.

I think after music is performance because it is also an immaterial form of art, and then there's everything else.

I'm not good at texting because I'm an older generation, old school. And nobody ever listens to the answering machine anymore. It's terrible.

If an artist tells you "this is an oak tree," then it better be an oak tree. It's how you proclaim things; if you say "the silence is the music," then it's the music.

The most unique thing about music making is sharing.

People can text with two hands and are so fast and I am not... I just have that one person I want to talk to.