My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind.

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

If Americans thought music and art belonged together, they wouldn't have the Grammys.

That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.

You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth.

My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.

Popular music sucks so bad right now.