I don't really get a lot of clarity in my everyday life and my interactions with people. Most things that happen to me aren't very straightforward. They're either vastly confusing, or I realize that I'm inventing whatever meaning I'm deriving from whatever happens and it's filtering through my own indulgent perspective.

That's for non-musicians to say: "I only listen to this or that type of music." I think musicians love all music, or at least that's my case.

You can't just imitate and keep coming up with ideas. You have to be tapping into something that's pure and unconscious in yourself or you'll have no career.

If you're an artist, you do what you do, and in a way, you don't even control the core essence of what you do. You try to mold it and develop a style, but the core elements of what you do are just part of who you are.

If time is my vessel, then learning to love might be my way back to sea

In an artistic and spiritual sense I'm really not that concerned about what happens after the album is done.

Everyone is broken-hearted except for the drastically unimaginative