Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.

The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.

Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all the emotions of fear and confusion relating to my family.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.