“Without complexity, there's no intensity.”

“Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge”

“The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.”

“There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.”

“I wrote a song called 'Red' and thinking about what that song means to me and all the different emotions on this album they're all pretty much about the tumultuous, crazy, insane, intense, semi-toxic relationships I've experienced in the last two years. All those emotions fanning from intense love, intense frustration, intense jealousy, confusion, all of that in my mind, all those emotions are red. There's nothing in between, there's nothing beige about those feelings and so I called my record that.”

“By comparison with a passionate age, an age without passion gains in scope what is loses in intensity.”