Often times at a concert, I just close my eyes. Music is very transportive and visual for me like that.

I could quite happily just make music because it conjures up a whole visual world for me in my mind.

You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness, Like resignation to the end, Always the end.

Through the music I hope to give it an arc that gives it a greater sense of a journey through the set rather than a bunch of songs.

Emotionally, I feel mostly out-of-depth, like I will never quite learn how to be what I should be. And that makes me feel pretty vulnerable a lot of the time.

What makes me vulnerable? Well, my ego, probably. I kind of like to try to let go of it. Or feeling out of my depth. In various aspects of my life, whether it's musical or personal.

When I started covering The Beatles and The Rolling Stones in a rock 'n' roll band, it helped me realize that my natural voice is actually really high. It helped me find my voice.

Have your friends collect your records and then change your number.

Music makes me want to dance but I'm not sure that's something anybody wants to observe.

I tend to just do whatever I want on an album and try to make it work. I'm just adventurous. It's most exciting to be at the edge of your abilities. I want to see how far I can push things.

I've been very lucky to work with many amazing animators and directors who can interpret and extend the music I make. When it's done well, it can create extra meaning and new context for the song.

Healthy striving is self-focused: "How can I improve?" Perfectionism is other-focused: "What will they think?"

Create your own tomorrows with your thoughts and actions - today.

We have to dedicate our efforts to better the life, the time passed by the worker in the industrial plant. That will be one of our main efforts during the next year.

Be different; be unique; be yourself.

I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

The person who does only what he must when he is in the mood or when it's convenient isn't going to be successful.

I explain that as Latinos, we can also be professionals.

Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says. it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts.

That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks.