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

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.

As far as I understand, the Second Coming is already here. It's a consciousness. It is not someone who is going to arrive and land in a clearing in the forest. The Hell that they talk of is going to be people creating their own unhappiness, a Hell on Earth.

I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.

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.

Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe.