I find the fact that so few people buy albums to be strangely emancipating. There's absolutely no reason for 99% of musicians making albums to think about actually selling albums. So as a musician you can just make an album for the love of making albums.

I truly don't judge other people's actions. But I think that factory farming is an abomination.

New York is such a competitive place; it tears people apart. People come here and, if they can't make it in the first month, they get torn apart and they have to go back to where they came from. I don't think that's terribly healthy.

One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of people who normally wouldn't hear music.

A lot of people have realized that a good spiritual practice and a good meditation practice have real benefit. It’s not just something nice to do to make the universe happy.

I need an audience way more than an audience needs me.

I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good.