I think as a mature artist, you're probably always trying to undo the compromises of one's self [in general]. It's not necessarily to do with youth.

There are a lot of very strong connections with music and mathematics. They both can work in patterns and sequences and repetitions.

What made it special made it dangerous, so I bury it... and forget.

I think we're all a party to this information all the time. It's every day, in a way we probably weren't a few years ago. We're more informed, which is a good thing because war is always there somewhere on the planet.

[For Before the Dawn] it was in the hands of a fantastic drummer and percussionist and who drove it into another moment in time. It's such a poignant song and it was transformed into entirely different beast.

The great thing about art on any level is that it can speak to all people if it's achieved properly.

When I've heard a piece of music or seen a painting that moves me, it gives me something.