I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse.

I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.

Crazy as it sounds, I'm a believer in destiny and serendipity, and I have had cosmic experiences all my life. Something told me I was meant for greater stuff. And look, I've had a baby! And I've written an opera!

I was in the forest jumping around daffodils while everyone was high on heroin.

To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy.

I was reared on folk music.

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.