I feel like writing music is a great chance to create something that extends beyond yourself.

I have three brothers. Poor Mum; four boys.

When I come up with something that I feel like people will connect with that makes me happy because I know that it would be something that would just go beyond me.

I feel like so many people get into that place where creating for someone else is selling out and it is so not about that. It is a stupid, kind of pretentious way of thinking.

If we all knew how to make that jump from good to great then I think every song would be great.

Something like film, I guess there are so many elements to it, like the dialogue and what makes sense culturally.

There is a balance in between where you can still make art, but it does not have to be insular.

You don't make a film and then be like I am only going to play it in my house and no-one is going to see it - that is ridiculous.

I feel like it is only music where people are like, "You can't do this for other people, you have to do it for yourself." Which I hate.

I think my first song ever was when my cat died. It was this awful, dreadful black cat who was angry and hated everything. Yet I was so upset when it died.

It is one of those things that is universally connectable, people can connect to it from everywhere; music is like that universal language.

If the mind fits, shrink it.

The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.

This is a court of law young man not a court of justice.

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.

Integrity is when your good intentions meet your actions - on a consistent basis.

I do think of myself as a taste-maker, yes, absolutely.

I have amazing collaborators as well, but I want to learn more and be a self-contained unit.

I can hear what I want [people] to play. If you don't hear what you want someone to play, then you can't tell 'em.

Don't talk about it; write.