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

I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.

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

We were all basically alone, and despite what all his studies had shown what was mistaken for closeness was just a case of mitosis.

With digital sound just becomes simply information, not the sum of its parts.

There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.

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

I put a lot into my records, and I won't release anything I'm not totally thrilled with.

I still play solo shows. And some of those shows are still some of the best, most gratifying shows.

The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.

What you see with your eyes when you're making music is going to have a profound effect on what you hear.

I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

Songwriting requires some sort of ceremony to even get the process started, and it can be somewhat arbitrary.

Guitars are kind of just, you know, sexy, especially old vintage ones.

You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio.

There's always that struggle between me wanting to keep [song] new and fresh and then be - I can never get with pop songs being so repetitive.

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

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

There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.

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

I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.

People who are thinking about your music almost as much as you are, that almost never happens.

Just don't let the human factor fail to be a factor at all

I think life is a wondrous thing. I'm happy to try pretty hard.

Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.

I really believe there's more honesty in one live show than there may be in my whole output.

Sometimes I just think we're not meant to fly halfway around the world in a day. That some kind of mutation is going to happen.

Most of the songs that I appreciate are lyrically vague.

Usually bands with violins - it's this little, poorly amplified looking kind of futile on stage, and that's not the way that my music is put together.

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.

I also don't believe that "everything happens for a reason," which is in a similar category of world-views.

Some of my earlier songs are kind of more about mental illness.

The anti-aging advert that I would like to see is a baby covered in cream saying, 'Aah, I've used too much'

Sometimes I think I don't have much choice in the matter. It's just what happens, and I'm following my instincts the whole time.

All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

Sometimes the word dictated the melody.

I don't like to disappear between records. I like to play shows while I'm making the record.

No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.

It's like you don't know you're making a record unless you're half-killing yourself.

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

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

I'm a terrible Scrabble player.

I just pay attention to what's in my head. That's my number-one rule.

I've always felt that dark lyrics with dark music is pretty useless. Maybe that's a strong statement - not useless, but for me, it's just boring.

Every time I make a record, it's kind of like scarification or something. You work 15 hours until you're stupid. You're just kind of all jittery.

I don't like super-descriptive modern fiction. I like, "Here's what was happening in 1582 all over the planet." Then that gets my imagination going.

Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and not have to back it up with data or graphs or research.

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

Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.

The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter.

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."