“Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.”

The sun is always shining. We have oxygen, trees, birds. There’s so much good things on Earth, still. We haven’t destroyed everything.

There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don’t have with anybody else, but that’s not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.

Music is one of the most essential things in life. It is what teaches us.

I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it.

I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.

Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it’s lacking substance, and it’s difficult to find good stuff.

I’m inspired to do music. I really can’t stop unless I stop being inspired.

It’s very important that we instill some respect for the parents.

I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.

Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect.

Running helps me relieve my stress.

I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father’s footsteps.

Photographs bring back the memories.

The last thing my father told me was: ‘On your way up, take me up. On your way down, don’t let me down.’ A father telling his son that puts some responsibility on my shoulders. He told me that, and I take it very seriously.

I don’t believe in other people’s ideas. I have my own ideas.

It’s important to make sure you move your body every day. 

It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.

When I was four, I wrote a song about falling into a black hole.

My brother had written ‘Ocean Eyes,’ and we recorded it, basing all of the production around contemporary and lyrical dance.

I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.

Poems are rough notations for the music we are.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

Some artists just ruin their voices because they don’t know any better.

Music just affects people’s feelings. It brings out emotions in you and makes you happy and sad.