I can really only can record at home.

I'm always anxious in introducing sounds that don't originate with the cello.

Last time I was recording, I was trying to loop on the computer, but it's really difficult because it's really different from looping on hardware.

I feel as though I can get an end result that works for me, but as far as recording techniques, I don't feel that confident in my abilities.

People tend to eat through the cello. They tend to take out the things that make it beautifully cello-y sometimes.

I saw Grizzly Man; I know what can happen.

I have totally like an urbanite relationship to nature. I mean I'm not someone who hikes.

I don't really understand the natural world, I admire it and am a little bit afraid of its power.

I feel like we as human beings are trampling all over the natural world, but at the same time, we are totally in its power.

I've been making the recordings for a long time, and I have tons and tons of them. I'm like a digital hoarder or something - everything is on like hard drives and whatever.

I'm really not working in a environment that's sonically pristine. It's not a conventional studio, obviously; it's a bit ramshackle.

In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.

That gap between half sleep and half awakening has always been occupied by nostalgia.

Normality is the new eccentric.

I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago.

Be Here Now is all about being present and not fearing what you don't know.

When I play poker, I don't like losing the pot.

Hatred was a plant of slow growth.

Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.

I woke up. I was like, "Look, you can do anything you want - and you want a lot of things, so you should get to work."

Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.