"I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz."

"I don't think I'm a great songwriter, but I think I've learned a lot about it, and I don't think there's any one way to do it. I don't think I can control it at all. I can just kind of hope that it happens."

"The pop world is cool, but I never really thought of myself as part of it or wanting to be a part of it because I'm on a label that's not really like that. They're not trying to dress me up, they're not trying to do things like that. I feel like I'm sort of separate from that, actually."

"I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning."

"I do believe at the end of the night when you're with your family, the character gets hung up on the door like a coat, and is there to be taken on the next morning."

"It is a quiet truth that we do not remember the passing of hours, but the resonance of moments — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular."

"Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed."