You keep sending out these little paper boats, and hope that someday one will come back laden with gold.

Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And then I started thinking about this idea of sadness and happiness, and the idea that sadness is very loud, and happiness is quiet.

I hope we don't have to borrow again, but it doesn't look very good. It will depend on this month's income.

A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.

Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.

The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.