I've always loved acoustic music because I've always loved to hear someone's words or just watch them and just get into them. The distancing thing about rock is it's so assaulting.

You can't chop down a symmetry

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

I'd like to see the Second Coming in every one of us. That we all be Jesus. That we all embody that consciousness.

Anything that activates the joy center in the brain makes you happy, and therefore protects you. Oddly enough, that's what they do in 'Harry Potter': The nurse gives the kids chocolates when they've been near the Dementors!

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

So many of my friends are still trying to get record deals, and I've had one for 10 years now, where my only goal is to make the best music I can make. I've been very lucky. I have great faith that I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, and whatever happens is going to be absolutely right for me.