Music has always carried me through times of loneliness. So when I make music, I like it to make people who listen to it feel like they have a friend who reveals something personal to them, rather than trying to be like a god up on a pedestal

Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.

Music is energy, and energy is the single most important form of it in the world. Without energy, there is no life. The only difference between a dead person and a live person is the energy, the electricity flowing inside their system, and that's what makes music.

Even if my songs are a bit low-spirited, they make me happy. I become happy when I hear sad songs. When you sing about sad things in a beautiful way, the atmosphere turns upside down

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.

We are all very lucky to live in a world where there is this much music.

It's about the music, it's not about just showing people what you can do with a piece of wood with strings on it