Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.

I probably listen to more instrumental music than music with lyrics, but at the same time I do love both.

What's funny for me is that I made a lot of the music I make with intentions of it being a song you listen to, to chill out.

I'm all for in my production, creating really unique textures and sounds - for me that's what I love about music.

I'm now much more aware of my mental state. I have a lot more control over it and can choose how I feel.

Music really does just boil down to basically, essentially songwriting chords and melodies.

I feel like I've gotten to a point where I don't know if it can get much bigger. I've been climbing and I feel very happy.

Most of the music I've listened to or grew up listening to - a lot of it at least - is instrumental stuff.

Australian weather's amazing! You notice that when you go overseas.

It's more my own thing if I do instrumentals, but I also do really love collaborating with vocalists, so it's a good balance.

Once you make something you think it's awesome, but it's only after you listen to it for a few weeks then you actually get a proper perspective on it.

Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach, ” I agreed. He looked blank, so I repeated it with proper emphasis. “ ChEEZ-zes crusty. Got Al -musty. Got DAMp on the StoneofapeaCH.

The man in 4B wondered if he could have your autograph. He told me his daughter is a huge fan.”

Fly in the sky of imagination to find the true solution.

As long as the belief is: we need suffering to grow, the world will be suffering and the belief will be limiting.

You would be derailing your life voluntarily out of fear that it might become ruined by chance. Or you could pick up and move on. Those were the only choices.

All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away.

I hate to be sporty and athletic. I wish that I could be, but I just wasn't born that way.

So the time line of when we consider a fetus 'human' is arbitrary after conception.