The way you do anything is the way you do everything.

Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies.

I'm trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It's like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.

They say that I have no hits and that I'm difficult to work with. And they say that like it's a bad thing.

the earth is not my home, I'm just passing by

There's a place on my arm where I've written her name next to mine.

When you say you're doing an opera, it's like when you're a seven-year-old and say, 'I'm off to Washington, Dad.' You kind of go, 'Sure. Sure you are, son.'