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On the other hand, I'm very tolerant as well. I expect that everybody can play what they want. I'm only not tolerant when it comes to myself and what is presented on my album that I have to listen to for the rest of my life.

I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.

I was an absolute idiot, wearing polo-necks, reading Kerouac, watching Woody Allen movies, and jazz fitted right into all of that. My interest in that whole world became very genuine, but perhaps started off a bit affected - a mixture of right and wrong reasons. I was always drawn to non-commercial music, perhaps pathologically so.

It wasn't until I found my tribe of artists - people who were outspoken and not afraid to say what they thought, whether in a song or a dance or a piece of classical music - that I found a refuge.

Music has always been a dominant force in my life. As a young kid, it was a way for me to escape everyday life.

The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.

I have a pretty healthy perspective on what my past music was.

Music was very influential on me as a kid.

When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.

It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring.