For me music is totally freeing, and it's its' own language too. You follow it, in a way.

I think people should have the right to bear arms, but they should be limited as to what kinds of guns they can have.

The New York School poets are my godfathers creatively.

I love silent films. The future is unwritten.

I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he is to me.

I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas.

For me, the music is always like the small rowboat I get into at the very beginning of my process.