The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty.

Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium.

In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer. Even though singers, particularly singers who can play piano... If you go to the office of career development, you can get a gig much easier. Still, musicians tend to look down on you. I think they've got some nerve, because if they could sing, they would do it, but most of them can't.

I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.

I think people at most record labels really like music, but it's hard because everything is so subjective, and everyone's so creative in their own right.

Just like everything, even the most fun and creative endeavor requires work to be successful, and I'm so sick of working. I'm a lazy person at heart. I never meant to be a go-getter.

I think there are nice things about every era. I wish we could just take the nice things.