When we get in a routine we can become zombie-like and shut down.

Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.

I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing.

When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.'

Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred.

Sometimes listening to music can motivate you. It can. But if you're a musician, that isn't always the way to get new ideas because you don't want to take somebody else's ideas. You need to find your own. So if you go to different artistic mediums, whether it's dance or it's visual arts or films or books, stories, sometimes it gets you hearing things, hearing progressions that you wouldn't come up with if you were just listening to other music because you don't want to copy progressions you've just heard.

Our world is a huge mess right now, and not big enough for masses of intolerant people.