I made an important decision, which was to pursue happiness. Rather than accept unhappiness. That's why I'm here, and it's great. I'm in a very good place in my life.

Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

Basically what Salomé did with Rilke as a mentor was direct him toward the Russian Orthodox Church, so he could project his love of the divine feminine onto the Virgin Mary. She wanted him to stop the cycle of being disappointed by the ultimate humanity of women. She was like, "You don't want me, you want the Virgin Mary." It's kind of a mystical concept! She also changed Freud's opinion, a little bit too late, about the female psyche, which he had so wrong. If it had been better publicized, it would have changed Western society's perception of the female psyche, too.

My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.

I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.

I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.

I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.