If you ask someone if they like music, they look at you strangely. It seems to be a universal given. Like asking someone if they like breathing. It is like breathing. Or air, rather. Flowing without and within. A matrix within which our lives are set. The setting for the tableware of our beings.

I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to.

I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.

I tell everyone a different story. That way nothing's ever boring, even when they turn and say goodbye.

I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up.

I'm just opening the doors. And a lot of this is new to me - thinking about it, and letting go again and again and again, trusting that if I'm meant to continue working as a musician, it'll happen. If I'm not, then pull out the life support.

Definitely I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell, and I think she is a wonderful writer, so she is probably part of me.