It's not set in stone. I like to keep it rolling and changing, and so I am like, "Great, I get to remake my song.".

What you see at the Field Museum is only like, 10 percent of the collection. It's birds of paradise and passenger pigeons and in all these drawers th….

I don't get particularly precious about things like this, though. Like the record company said, "We need a radio edit that delivers the hook" - I don….

The melodies come out so strong that I'm like, "Oh, crap." It's really better if they could both be kind of able to compromise, but the melodies, eve….

I have the barn, it's just kind of like a studio. Almost all artists have la studio to work in, and that's really what it is. A place to get away. I'….

I've never approached classical music in a formal way, ever. I couldn't read very well. I'd have to play every piece and internalize it, almost as if….

Music as a social conduit has always been important to me..

I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords..

I haven't had that many people onstage for a while, and I'm looking forward to that. They're all such creative musicians in their own right. They're ….

I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering..

Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin..

A day off after a show with no agenda in a foreign city is about the most fertile creative situation I can imagine. Just walking with nothing to do, ….

When I'm onstage, I'm completely comfortable, and I feel very vital and alive..

I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes..

I can't relate to the process of just disappearing and writing a record, all at the same time, followed by the sort of drudgery of going out on tour ….

The earth almost looks like it's packed down and dense from so many feet treading over it..

I've done my share of busking, and it's fun until it isn't. There are musicians in the subways that will make you cry, they're so good..

The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me..