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I don't really see huge barriers between any styles of music.

It's interesting the kind of freedom the musical form gives you. The rules are out the window. You can get impressionistic without seeming pretentious. Because it's perceived as an inherently accessible form, it gives filmmakers some leeway.

Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.

Writing songs is really about writing. It's not about necessarily focusing on one particular style or making it one particular thing.

I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.

I don't really care very much if I don't think that the critics really understand music.

It's not music you can evaluate in traditional ways. If you look around at a concert, you might see what look like bored people, or maybe they're drifting, but they're just having another kind of experience, an inner thing.

We don't need to illustrate music; music illustrates itself.

I think in some ways, it can do a listener a disservice to explain a song. I think I'd rather leave a little room for people to put themselves in it.

Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.