I guess I don't really know any other way to do it, it just feels like the natural way to do things for me. Like - if I'm writing a song - it has to ….

I've had the idea since high school, of writing music just for voices, just a choir. I don't know if I'll ever get around to doing it, but I'd defini….

I guess that's my defence, is like - even if people think it sucks - it's not me anymore, you know..

I like to think about music as a sport. But only in terms of golf, as far as the course being music and me being the golfer. So it's competitive but ….

I didn't grow up as a religious person under any sort of system or anything like that, I just felt like I've always been sort of intrigued by that - ….

When you create something you leave little crumbs of stuff that you've experienced or music that you've listened to..

I have no interest in making music solely for a white audience. If that's what our audience is, I don't really feel responsible for that..

After watching a couple of live performances of bands like Nirvana, I was really excited and inspired by how raw and powerful it was. I wanted to at ….

It's awkward, because sometimes you find new friends that are cooler than your old friends, and then your old friends desperately try to cling on to ….

I was really psyched about crooner types like Frank Sinatra or Scott Walker. Something that comes more from the stomach than the throat. There's an e….

The visuals and the audio, could stand by themselves in a way. But the whole idea of the thing, is that they would exist together. So I think togethe….

I have a hard time with extreme imagery. Like I can't watch horror movies or anything like that..

I guess I feel like; if you're doing something and people are accusing you of appropriating something like that so obviously, then I would feel like ….

I enjoy trying to figure out a way to deal with machines - they become like little buddies or something. It's almost the same way you might develop a….

Drugs don't have to be a part of that to me, so if somebody says - your music takes me to that sort of place - then I'm really psyched..

Even though there's stuff that I really like that is just a retro sort of style or whatever, I feel like what I'm most excited by is new mixes of thi….

At least for me personally, drugs aren't an essential part of having a surreal experience, or what you might call a higher experience..

I don't listen to music throughout the day very often. I don't own a record player. I don't really have a stereo system. Most of the music I listen t….

Doesn't every band sort of appropriate their influences into what they do? I guess that would be my defence: if you're making something, you kinda ca….

The most inspiring drummer for me is Stewart Copeland from The Police. The Police are the first band I can remember really liking, and Copeland is a ….

I feel like in a conversation if things get said and then repeated, it sort of becomes inherently part of the narrative whether you want it to be or ….