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When you're a creative person, there are just times when you're not listening. You know, I could be looking right at you and thinking about something else.

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

Music stops you from thinking.

The way I work on music is that I go into my studio, and I start playing music, and I see what happens, and... I never think about it.

I did a lot of work without thinking about it in a calm, rational way. Stopping and thinking about what I was doing made my music calmer and deeper in tone.

I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.

If I'm in the middle of a take and I start to think about what I'm doing, I just mess up and I have to stop and so I find that for me, you really need to trust your instinct.

There are times when what you do will be mysterious to everyone... times when you have to change directions before people are ready. Just because someone does something that critics don't like or understand doesn't mean you're failing as a musician. It probably means you're growing.

I get bored of music really easily, so I always try and make music that makes sense, but then it's just a little bit wrong.

Whenever I make music, it reflects where I'm at mentally.