"Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise - people talking or something - I was never the one whose instinct was to try to be louder than them."

"The idea of having one ensemble do everything is what was on 'Sea Lion' and that's what I tried to make happen for 'Metals,' which is having five people in the room and all of us contributing equally to every arrangement and every song."

"When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean necessarily in the flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way."

"Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other."

"Well, little old Noisyville-on-the-Subway is good enough for me."

"Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments."

"It's important to me to be in a relationship when I'm in one, but I'm not someone who needs to be in a relationship."

"Working out, for me, is sort of a meditation."