The Bible's Blind, The Torah's

A Lot Of The Mythology That Sprung Up Around Haile Selassie, It's Not Like Something He Asked For, Having People Deify Him. That's Pretty Heavy. I Don't Know What You Do In That Situation.

I Try Not To Think About The Idea Of Reaching More And More People, Because Once You Get In That Mindset, I Think You Lose The Point Of Why You're Doing It In The First Place. Still, The Best Feeling I Ever Get Is When I Finish A Song, And It Exists, And It Didn't Exist Before, And Now It's There, And It Makes Me Feel A Certain Way.

A Kid That Picks Up A Record, He Doesn't Need To Know Anything Other Than The Music And Have It In His Or Her Headphones. They're Getting Ideas Directly, It's Like Someone Whispering In Their Ear. That's Such A Personal Way To Receive Information.

It's Dangerous To Buy Into Praise And Criticism For What You Do When You're Trying To Present Your Music To People. I Don't Ignore It Completely, But I Don't Dwell On It Too Much.

I've Thought About The Idea Of, 'can Happiness And Creativity Co-exist?' So Much Of What I've Done, I Think, Has Been Based On Being Dissatisfied Or Incomplete Or Lonely. The Answer Is, 'there Isn't An Answer, Necessarily.