So when I feel the spirit upon me it's something I don't take it for granted, and I don't think I'm solely responsible for these things.

I just feel like the songs that come out are the songs that come.

I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.

In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lifestyle is so fast that oftentimes people search for whatever the easiest way to feel relaxed in the midst of all of it, or the easiest way to have energy.

I wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with

It means basically I'm using the synthesizer more to change the sounds of other things rather than to use it as the source of the sound.

Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people; it doesn't sound good to me. If you're making music in order to become famous or loved by the masses that's not what I'm about. When somebody's making music for the wrong reasons, I hear it right away.