"It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat."

"I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters."

"A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music."

"For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration."

"Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town."

"The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism?"

"Every second given to regret is a precious second stolen from creation. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery."

"No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls."