I can look back over my earlier music, and it takes me back to the place I was emotionally.
Music tells you about the artist and what they were thinking about at the time, because the person has to think about it to sing it.
Concert repertoire is some of the most beautiful music ever written, and I frequently seek out opportunities to perform it.
Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.
I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other.
I remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto.
One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.
I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.
How about that? You can hear NFL Films music on everything from 'SpongeBob SquarePants' to 'Deep Throat.'
I find in music there's a space and a language I can use to express things in ways I can't describe conversationally.
People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'
Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.
I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.
Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.
You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.
There's really only three things you can write music about: girls, cars and surfing.
I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.
There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections.
I knew when I went to a very hippie high school that focused on music that I wanted to do something in the industry.
My music is a direct reflection of the eclectic person I am. I don't like to be stuck in an R&B box.
I've only ever had one doubt about music. It came when I was 11. I hated playing scales.
