I was never pop-music taken seriously when I was taught. But some people who agree with you will like your music, and some who don't agree with you will like your music. I think that if you can approach things in a universal fashion and speak rationally about things, then most people do have similar intrinsic values. They don't - or at least they feel that they shouldn't - want other people to suffer. They want a good life for them and their own.

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.

Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.

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

I feel like you should always be questioning the genre you're doing. If you're doing something that sounds like a lullaby, it can be good to make it about someone stalking someone.

My mom. She really encouraged me. That's the trouble with education: Unless you have a really supportive parent, you get left behind.

I was never pop-music taken seriously when I was taught. But some people who agree with you will like your music, and some who don't agree with you will like your music. I think that if you can approach things in a universal fashion and speak rationally about things, then most people do have similar intrinsic values. They don't - or at least they feel that they shouldn't - want other people to suffer. They want a good life for them and their own.