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In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

I've had the healthy and sobering experience of constantly working with music that is invariably better than any performance of it can be.

I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.

I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.

To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.

When you become such a strong personality in music, it's hard for people to accept you as a different character.

Before I wasn't sure what I wanted to say, but now, I have had so many different experiences that they have given me what I want to get across in my music.

My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.

I went through my adolescence having this revelatory experience - I can have any music I want, and I can get it immediately. For me and for a lot of people I know, there's this musical eclecticism that happened.