The Universe is making music all the time.

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

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

bringing up children was]like living with a bunch of drunks...you really have to be on your toes all the time.

Every single song has its own individual character and you can't treat each song the same way, because it wants to be treated differently and there are songs that are like scared birds that you have to sneak up on over the course of months in the woods.

The first time I started listening to Irish music, I had a very strong connection. Strangely enough, there's a great many Japanese melodies and vocal styles that sound very much like Hungarian music. You start seeing all these cross-references and comparative, independent musical cultures.

I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox.