My personal relationship with music is an imperfect harmony because I never studied music, but here I am not just writing for bands but full orchestral sections and doing all this composition, and I never learned the right way of doing things so I have a lot of dissonant sounds and things that are brought to my attention, and generally I leave them that way because I like those imperfections.

A lot of pop music is based on trying to make people remember it so that they'll buy it. To me, it was not about that.

I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.

I'm a huge Beatles fan, but I've only really gotten into them as an adult.

Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.

I've always worked on all different types of music, some with specific project goals and deadlines and some not. Sometimes I would write a piece of music that is almost like a film score or weird electro pieces, wherever the muse took me, and I still do that.