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I like to start with an idea, but then again, I might be sitting at the keyboard, and just playing a bunch of chords that sound cool together, and something just inspires an idea from that.

I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' Well, on the first place, I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea, it's too limiting and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity.

Sometimes I think that I want to do something strictly basic, really simple. Just with a few chords. But I won't have anything more than two or three sentences in my head. That kind of evaporates once I start playing and then it goes off in whatever direction.

I assemble my ideas in pieces on a computer file, then gradually find a place for them on a piece of scaffolding I erect.

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

Sometimes ideas feel like they were already there, and that you're just discovering them.

I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised by the directions things take when I actually start writing.

I'm always having ideas. I'd like to continue being able to realise the ideas I have.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.