It is a good thing to let someone else's vision take over, and it has always been a good thing in the end.

Most of the time, the creative part is like playing in a sandbox. I can sit here and work for 12 hours and not get tired of it.

The way I work is mostly unconscious and instinctive.

Before I moved to Brooklyn to pursue music, I was a high school dropout and speed freak who'd been living with her dealer boyfriend in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at 16.

I think I am a late-bloomer. My taste in music just keeps getting better.

After being in the creative, hermetic state I have been in, coming out has been painful, but it is getting easier.

I think that it's always more interesting to combine familiar sounds together in a new way and with newer sounds if you can make it work, rather than sticking to just one style too strictly.

I love the feeling of nostalgia vying with the present. That can be from song to song, or within the same song.

You always want an album to sound like its own little planet.

When I moved to New York in my 20s, I didn't have an obnoxious ego, but it was huge! I'll thought, "I'll never die and I can do anything."

The hard part was when I went into the studio with co-producer Eric Broucek, and he started slashing my demos. I always sweat that.

What does the body matter if the soul is dead?

By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.

Mindfulness is not the path of chasing. It is the path of beautification. When flowers blossom, the fragrance spreads, and the bees come.

Your eyes, ears and mind are imperfect in front of magic.

My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ball, every age we've ever been is who we are.

In England there are sixty different religions and only one sauce.

I'm fed up with being bossed around.

You've got to find a way of saying it without saying it.

Week after week, the heads of Red Army Intelligence received updates on the Wehrmacht's preparations.

Safe is just another word for scared.