"Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness."

"I've been told the weirdest things: 'Yeah, I love taking a bath to your music!' or 'I gave birth to my daughter while listening to your music.'"

"I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet."

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

"The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature."

"A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success."

"I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored."

"So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing."