I was never encouraged to believe anything. I was brought up in a profoundly agnostic or pantheistic community.

There are so many musicians, friends of mine, who play shows for ten people a night, or always desperately wanted a record contract. So even if every person on the planet loathes me, I have nothing to complain about. My job is not a bad job, so I can't complain.

Music is just air moving around.

Basically we should stop doing those things that are destructive to the environment, other creatures, and ourselves and figure out new ways of existing.

My goal is to make one-not a hodgepodge, but just the sort of record that I would want to listen to.

That softness around your eyes, a softness in your face. Almost the way you feel when you’re about to start crying. That, to me, is love. It can be romantic love, it can be friendship love, it can be family love, it can be love for a chipmunk. It can be love for anything.

Luckily almost no one buys music anymore, so selling music doesn't really affect any of my professional decisions.