Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear.

I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much. Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority. I couldn't name more than a couple of good drum'n'bass acts, and I have no idea what's big in the dance world right now.

Labor for a lot of people has a negative connotation. But not for me. I always want to be working.

People want you to play the songs they know. I try not to reflect too much, and I don't really like to focus too much on myself.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.

As important as politics are to me, the life and the spirit of people's emotions are much more important. People live real lives where they love and grieve and feel pain and joy and that is a whole separate sphere. All that political stuff, I believe in it strongly, but not as strongly as I believe that at some point you or someone is going to need a song to sit with and comfort them in a hard time.