I get annoyed with movies or books, songs or records that deliberately try to make you feel a certain way.

I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time when I'm recording to 2-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.

It's a hard thing to explain, but the more I arrange for strings, the more I realize the possibilities.

I have a very strong belief in God.

I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.

I'm somebody who doesn't feel the need to be in the driver's seat all the time. I appreciate the perspective of being in the passenger's seat sometimes, and I feel fortunate for that because I've learned a lot from that perspective.

I get annoyed with movies or books, songs or records that deliberately try to make you feel a certain way.