When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music.

Up until I started working with him, I had thought that music was a nice thing that I enjoyed and liked making, but it wasn’t a serious healing modality. What Dr. Sacks has proven is that music is actually a quantifiable, profound healing modality.

As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible.

I see 'Ahab's Wife' as offering an alternative vision to

I like tea and yoga, but I don't do yoga.

You could spend every waking moment online and still only experience one-trillionth of what's out there. I find that a little overwhelming.

If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he'd probably be living in Seattle, getting kind of fat and balding, be relatively happy and producing records for other people.