"You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I'm going, or when I've lived in a place so long that there's no chance I could possibly get lost."

"There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science."

"Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies."

"What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness."

"The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes."

"The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music."

"In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores."

"Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves."