When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it up or make it easier for the masses.

There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful.

I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel.

In the present world, this technological, psychotic, politicised, nonsensical world, you have to believe that the good guys are going to win! That evil will be banished somehow!

You get to a certain age, and you feel the need to reward yourself just for existing.

I will take my coffee black / never snack / hang with the wolves who are sheepish.

I wish I could just relax sometimes and make some money, but I always feel like I have to prove some kind of big, profound point.