I just don't like people coming up to me and saying something. It immediately makes you become insincere. There is no way you can react to it sincerely.

I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.

I'm allergic to Hawaii. Everything there makes me react in some way.

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

When everything is coming your way, you're probably in the wrong lane.