I bring a record home, and it connects with me like nothing else. In my ideal situation, somebody will do that with my record.

The world is this incredibly blurry, crazy dream that I'm just sort of stumbling through.

And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea. But for now we are young; let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see.

Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.

I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have the ability to move through time and space freely, and save Anne Frank.

I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe; where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and all sorts of different sources.

God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life.

Soft silly music is meaningful, magical.

I decided at 10 I wanted to be in a band; everyone else wanted to play football.

I do feel like it's so important not to take that for granted - that opportunity to share your ideas with intelligent, beautiful people.

The music is supposed to be healing.

The songs were all either fast or sad. Because all songs should be either fast or sad.

In time take time while time doth last for time Is no time when time is past.

It is a good thing to go to Paris for a few days if you have had a lot of trouble, and that is my advice to everyone except Parisians.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

I wouldn't ask anyone to do anything I wouldn't do myself.

My first big show was with Tim McGraw and Mark Chesnutt, and that was overwhelming. There was probably 25,000 people there. I was nervous, (but it) was exhilarating.

SECRET is not a mystery, it is analization.

Alea iacta est. The die has been cast.

Patience obtains everything.