I also like a lot of silence, and when you're touring, it's constantly noise, all the time, you're surrounded with 15 or 20 people the entire time. I find that tough.

In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.

I am someone that follows the news and reads newspapers yet what do you believe and what don't you.

If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.

It's good to feel excited by the environment you're in.

First off, I think nudity is taken differently in America, though they did make a fuss in England, too.

There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.