I think you can get the wrong impression about me from my work and think I'm always a bit down. I'm not that way at all. I'm fun-loving.

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

Great music as much about the space in between the notes as it is about the notes themselves.

So just to be truthful to my own sensibility, I need to acknowledge that the season is not all joy and light for a lot of people. It's tough - environmentally, emotionally, spiritually.

For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each one is located and what was happening in your life at time or where you were when you first read it is the languid and distilled pleasure of the connoisseur.

Don't judge me, you could be me in another life.