Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.

Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.

I'm really good at melodic and sonic things, but I don't really think I have anything to say. But I really enjoy the puzzle-making of taking words and adding a melody to them.

If I would not be able to create music, I would create art or something else. Perhaps cooking.

Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.

Any ideas of “other” are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of “normal.”