“I love Adele and Lykke Li. I also listen to classical music as well.”

I’ve never spoken to Bon Iver, but I would love to. I’m a huge fan!

I read the three Hunger Games books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote Just a Game.

The things I see every day inspire my sound and lyrics, like certain people and situations that stick out in my mind. There are also certain musicians I love whose music and styles inspire me.

I used to play violin, but I wasn’t very good! I’m starting to learn guitar.

Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes – the whole bag of tricks.

Classical music’s ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.

There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full of feelings people surely never had

I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.

Classical cooking and molecular gastronomy should remain separate.

Certainly we do not need quantum mechanics for macroscopic objects, which are well described by classical physics.

And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.

It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line