When you're really looking forward to something, you don't feel the sense of pressure.

As I've gotten older, I've found that I'm not afraid anymore to throw my influences into making a record.

When you're really looking forward to something, you don't feel the sense of pressure.

Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it.

Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.

I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.

When I'm not completely loaded, it's a much more vulnerable place. I can feel the music, I can feel the energy and I really have to put it out there. When I was loaded, I was just oblivious.