'Black Hole Sun' was written in a car when I was driving home from the studio one night. Pretty much everything that you hear was written in my head.
I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.
I usually dream of melodies. When I wake up I have them in my head. I usually come up with things in the middle of the night because that's when my mind is the quietest. I always have my tape recorder, pen and pad by my bed just in case.
Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.
That's what my life is, writing songs.
Pardon me if this all sounds corny, but when you put on a record, I'd like it to be an escape from everything you do.
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
Music is just a huge part of my life. It affects moods. I've always found it insane how you can hear one song, and it takes you back to a specific, specific moment in your life, and you remember it vividly like it was yesterday.
There's always a special feeling I have while writing any song.
Each time I play a song it seems more real.
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
My, oh my, how 'Sometimes When We Touch' has travelled since I solemnly wrote my first version at the age of 19.
A music serves truth up to you in a really interesting way that allows you to luxuriate in its beauty and, at the same time, to hopefully see yourself in its fragility.
One often makes music to supplement one's world.
That's what I like about Frank Ocean or Bon Iver - they try to capture a feeling in the most sincere way.
I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.
The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.
I want to write music based on my life, my past experiences and heartbreaks.
But it wasn't just a technical approach towards the piano, studying the music for this film was also a way of approaching the soul of the film, because the film is really about the soul of Schubert and the soul of Bach.
I love songs that create moments that are very personal and that tell a story.
Music, to me, is something that connects to the soul.
I like to write a piece of music that reflects how I felt about a film as opposed to, here's this action scene; here's this set piece.
Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.
I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears.
In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.
