One of my favorite things is when I'm listening to a song and I find my own meaning in it that I can relate to and I can create my own relationship and bond with the song.

I think sometimes I get overly excited about adding things and having new ideas. You forget that more isn't always better.

I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these days.

I think there is a fascination with choral music in general.

People digest and process music differently, and I'm sure that was the case even when I was a kid.

It is definitely much easier to feel that an album is disposable - to dismiss an album or delete the tracks you don't like or to just throw it into shuffle or whatever.

I would never be angry at someone for downloading the album. Sometimes people just wanna listen to it first to see if they like it and that's totally fair.

My mother was a music teacher and my grandfather was a professor of music, and there was a lot of singing in the family. It wasn't like trained singing or anything like that, but it was singing.

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

We decide where the time goes. There's so much freedom in that, and so much responsibility.

Dogs were like the worst drunks - lunging at crotches then pissing over other people's shoes.

I wanted to bathe in plum juice, rediscover my body and adorn it in kiwi circles.

Journalism is about results. It's about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way.

The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.

A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.

Wine is a civilizing agent.

I used to pessimistically think I was going to die alone, but now I optimistically know I'm going to die hoping to meet someone.

Our children shouldn't have to wait for adulthood to become wild readers. For many, it will be too late.