I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?

I'm a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.

Songs need to have the ability to change and to grow for sure. They take on lives of their own. Some songs just don't have that capacity. They're locked within a period of time. And as soon as you take them out of that period of time, they die very quickly.

If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.

I'm always sort of looking for projects that I can sort of put out into the world, into the public sphere, and to somehow cause an effect. I want to be able to create projects that sort of are going to make people think and think in this sort of magical, sort of fantastical way.

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

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.