At 23, you can completely, literally reinvent yourself if you want to.

I don't understand being idle; I don't have an idle setting. I probably should develop one.

Normal adult shopping is something I will never actually do, because it's no more possible for me to go shopping like normal adults do than it is for a man with no legs to wake up one day and walk. I can't miss shopping like you'd miss things you once had. I miss it in a different way. I miss it like you would miss a train.

I think The Sunset Tree is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.

The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.

In the present political situation, it's an interesting phenomenon to look at: what is the appeal of an autocratic leader? Why do people want somebody who yells at them? For most of us, that's so hard to understand. Who wants that? I think there are a lot of people for whom that fulfills some kind of need.

I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.