In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.

The music is sort of a veil. It's melodic and up and fast, and you could lose yourself in it in a happy way, but the songs are about mortality and doing things you wish you hadn't done. Life is pretty fucking good for me, but I still think like it's all going to go away. It tempers everything I look at.

Music is equally important to math and science.

The most precious things in speech are pauses.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.