That's sort of what I try to do with music: to harness whatever energy is already there and see where that momentum takes me. Sometimes you're spinning that oncoming momentum in a different direction, or sometimes you're coercing it to consider itself, or sometimes you're holding it up to a mirror. But I don't really like to interrupt and come in and destroy everything and start all over. I'm not that kind of guy.

I'm like the random guy who you would think I'm a computer freak and you would think that I'm a massive art collector, but I'm really not.

The best work comes from people who are motivated by crisis. When something stops their original idea, they respond by coming up with something even better.

I'm a fan of music, first and foremost. So I do things from the perspective of a fan.

Trust me, when they read the [Oscar] results, my face was...frozen. But then I thought about it, and I just decided just to...let it go.

So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.

Usually as humans and especially as a man, we look at things in context. It's like, oh, I know what that is, that's this, or this, there's that.