If you have a ton of counterpoints, complex harmony, all these tricky things going on, it makes things less accessible to people.

We're always trying to really ground it, and I use this term a thousand times, it's a score I want people to feel and not necessarily hear.

If Nature brought you to it. Nature will get you through it.

Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.

The person who says it can’t be done is almost always interrupted by the person who is doing it.

what sinks of iniquity these little villages can be

We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.

Every night I play as if my life depends on it.

as a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were when i was left alone in the house on a saturday.

I proved to my own satisfaction that I am madder than I think.

If enough people out there want a physical product, I'll be happy to make one. I'd say about 10,000 people is "enough."

And I simply decided to be happy again.