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

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

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

My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain.

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