I want to make albums that are like a Murakami novel or a Terrence Malick film - something that explicitly states its own world.

I would like for people to appreciate the album musically whether they knew how it was made or not.

I feel like if I do my homework practice-wise, by the time I get to the studio I can put everything exactly where I want it to be right away.

Never had a ska phase, but I was in a very grunge-like rock band that awkwardly had an alto sax in it.

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare.

Some scars don't hurt. Some scars are numb. Some scars rid you of the capacity to feel anything ever again.

The story of Psyche finally made sense to him- why a mortal girl would be so afraid. Why would she risk breaking the rules to look the god of love in the face, because she feared he might be a mo

The shortest distance between two points is always under construction.

Every now and then you're going to get beaten, but we work hard.

In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me.

I have never found in a human being loyalty that is comparable to a dog's loyalty.

You cannot separate the old furniture from the memories and the memories from the old furniture!

The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind.

The only other series I worked on a regular basis was Benson, and that was a sitcom, so there really wasn't a chance to go deeply into the characters.