I tend to just do whatever I want on an album and try to make it work. I'm just adventurous. It's most exciting to be at the edge of your abilities. I want to see how far I can push things.

Often times at a concert, I just close my eyes. Music is very transportive and visual for me like that.

I could quite happily just make music because it conjures up a whole visual world for me in my mind.

You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness, Like resignation to the end, Always the end.

Through the music I hope to give it an arc that gives it a greater sense of a journey through the set rather than a bunch of songs.

Emotionally, I feel mostly out-of-depth, like I will never quite learn how to be what I should be. And that makes me feel pretty vulnerable a lot of the time.

What makes me vulnerable? Well, my ego, probably. I kind of like to try to let go of it. Or feeling out of my depth. In various aspects of my life, whether it's musical or personal.

When I started covering The Beatles and The Rolling Stones in a rock 'n' roll band, it helped me realize that my natural voice is actually really high. It helped me find my voice.

Have your friends collect your records and then change your number.

Music makes me want to dance but I'm not sure that's something anybody wants to observe.

I've been very lucky to work with many amazing animators and directors who can interpret and extend the music I make. When it's done well, it can create extra meaning and new context for the song.

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf's lot to remain merry in the face of torment and adversity. I promised to keep that in mind.

Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities.

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears.

Every American has the right to feel safe in their schools, in their churches, in their movie theaters, and in their nightclubs.

A lot of people have a lot of talent. What people don't have is the will to work hard enough to develop that talent fully.

For one to control one's thoughts and feelings means one can actually control one's atmosphere and all who walk into its sphere of influence.

I believe for God not to allow pain to happen in the world is for Him to extract free will from the world.

Innovation without imitation is a complete waste of time.

May I not seem to have lived in vain.