Religion can only dream to do what science and art does every day.

I'm always trying to see things from different peoples' perspectives, to understand why they love something.

When in doubt, zoom out.

If I can learn a couple of phrases in Italian but do mostly weird, absurd music things, people will like it.

A lot of times, in music especially, it's producers making a political decision.

When I'm performing, I hope my research and my experience with those things I'm talking about rings true.

Music and art is regarded as extra and can be the first thing that you cut in a school program, and it's completely not true. If you want to create really boring, frustrated human beings, then yeah, cut out art and science.