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Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.

I try to give to my music the spiritual quality, very deep in the soul, which does something even if you are not realizing it or analyzing it - that's the duty of the music.

I never feel like I need to make a song that sells 5 million copies; that's not the point of why I make music. It's great if that happens, like it did with 'Clarity,' but my goal is to always make a better track than the last one.

I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like, yeah, you can enjoy the products of professionals, but that doesn't mean you don't have to completely give up the reins and give up every connection to music or whatever it happens to be.

If you really love music, people can tell if you love music. You have to just stick with it.

Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative.

My intention is to make music that you can enjoy at all times.

After you make good, quality music, then it's your job to go out there and promote it and to market it and to get it out there to the people.

When you are a real artist who is serious about your craft, you love good music. Period.

Music is your own talent and is an important tool. Even if you don't want to be a role model, get ready to be in the public eye. Energy is there, you just have to use it.