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It's nice if people ask to use your song. You have to make a decision as an artist how you feel about that.

It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.

It's dangerous to buy into praise and criticism for what you do when you're trying to present your music to people. I don't ignore it completely, but I don't dwell on it too much.

The music I always liked as a kid was stuff I could bum out to and realize, 'Hey, someone else feels that way, too.' So if someone can do that with my music, it's mission accomplished.

Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I don't think it's art. I just think it's music. It is what it is.

I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.

If you are making music for other people, you will have to be aware of how people relate to it.

I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.