It was definitely in my mind to do a solo album, but I didn't know it would take this long.

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.

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

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."

I was in love once and I am in love now… but luckily with the same person

Before a brain can register a thought, a mind must think it... every step of the way is mind over matter... We override our brains all the time.

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

I have yet to see a career that is similar in benefit as computer science for doing the advanced exercises.

There is a world above, Where parting is unknown; A whole eternity of love, Form'd for the good alone; And faith beholds the dying here Translated to that happier sphere.

Communism has nothing to do with love. Communism is an excellent hammer which we use to destroy our enemy.

Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.

My goal before I die is to get all of my thoughts out.

The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist.