When you're writing a song with someone, it's a very personal process. The music has to be an organic experience, it can't be contrived, sometimes it is and I think people pick up on that.

I've learnt so much from the people I've worked with, about how to listen to stuff as it's coming together and not force anything.

I feel like I've got an open mind as far as sounds, for me, as far as I'm concerned I just wanted to make music that had really good melodies.

Whichever kind of music I was making it was all about the melody anyway. The kind of music I'm making now is the way it is because I'm being 100% honest with myself.

The most important thing is that you're comfortable with who you're working with as a person. Forget the music, if you can sit in a room with someone and you don't have awkwardness.

In love there is truth, and in truth there is peace.

Act-act in the living Present!

Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.

Humor, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light.

Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.

I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.

Man tried to imitate God by drawing; then we invented the photo.

There are laws of the universe and if you practice them they will respond to you.

If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't be trusted.

Heaven lieth at the feet of mothers.