Everybody has their own level of doing their music. ... Mine just happened to resonate over the years, in one way and another, with a significant enough number of people so that I could do it professionally.

I think if you do what's in your heart - Joseph Campbell always says you have to follow your bliss, and if you do, doors open where you didn't even realize there were doors.

When I was taking arithmetic in the first grade I said to myself, "I'm going to be a singer. I don't have to worry about numbers." I didn't think I was going to be famous or a star.

I only notice the clothes I'm wearing.

What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read.

Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.

Rampant eclecticism is my middle name.