People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'

I think music is an intuitive force. It's this beautiful wave that connects all of us and inspires us, and I think music has the ability - when you listen to a song, you're not immediately thinking about the lyrics or what's going on in the mind of the writer, you're feeling the song.

I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.

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

I've always tried to listen to a lot of different music from around the world.

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

Composing is what I love most from what I do. Each genre has a unique expression that you cannot supplant with another. All the records co-inspire each other though they are not tied conceptually in any way to another.