The sense of waking up in the morning and knowing that there is music ahead of me in the day is such an incredible feeling. The more I engage with music the more days I wake up and know that that's what's going to be there, and the things that come with music.

The ideal is to put on shows where, if you go into the same space again, you don't remember ever having been there before, because where you were was a space that only existed that one time, created by the music.

It's definitely important to be open enough to seize an opportunity when the opportunity is there.

I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.

Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.

There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate.

I was worried before I saw the play 'The Seven Storey Mountain', thinking I don't really want to see a play about Thomas Merton. He probably wouldn't have either, ideally. Then it isn't. It's more about us and it's about our relationship to what he may or may not have thought about. It's its own thing completely.