I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.

A is for Answering all your prayers, N is for kNowing that your loverman's going to be the answer.

My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.

Everyone wants to feel that they matter.

There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and something that happens within a song, where you have absolutely nothing, and then suddenly you have something. It's like the origin of the universe.

You're collaborating with people you don't even know, when you're making a film. You're collaborating with people you've never seen. So, the collaborative process is very, very different than when you're collaborating on a record with the musicians you've worked with all your life.

The singing tells everybody what to do musically.