The visual side of being a performer or in a band is, to me, as important as the music. I know not everyone shares that same opinion, but when I'm wr….

I think that from the beginning of me making music, I always had it in my mind to combine things that I like to listen to in a way that I had never h….

There's nothing more fun than feeling frequencies and learning about equipment - everybody should do that. But if you're going to put your heart into….

I didn't want to make a record that's just drones or completely experimental. A lot of the time bands that make this psychedelic style of music are j….

I saw a lot of drugs and strange things when I was younger, but I also think it was a positive experience because I was surrounded by these really in….

I think every artist that you like, or even artists that have defined their own times, they're definitely looking to the past as a starting place. It….

My job is to file things! I'm not going to be like, "Mr. Jacobsen from Oakland, California" - just listing his problems, like a rap..

If you have a lot of textural stuff happening in music you get called shoegaze, or whatever, and then it becomes about the sound and not about the so….

I lived with my godmother and mother in New Zealand until I was seven. They were both Jungian psychologists and had a homeless shelter for street gan….

In the beginning I had a lot of self-imposed limitations as far as production and instrumentation. It was really inspiring for us at the time, becaus….

I'm very much into collaboration. I think that collaboration is the road to making something great. I respect artists that are more autocrats and are….

It's really cool what you can do with a guitar and a Fender Twin and a space echo..

I love people like Kate Bush and Stevie Nicks and David Bowie - people that project themselves as characters and that contextualizes the music..