When you're making the record, you're not thinking about an audience, but you still need them and you want them.

For me, the audience is the most important thing in the whole chain, so finding out how they respond to things is a learning curve at all times.

I really enjoy playing for hours and hours. DJ sets where you turn up over an hour and you're on a festival stage, people basically expect much more pounding than I ever would play. I just feel like a fish out of water when I do those. They want something really kind of aggressive; that's not really the kind of music that I'm into.

I'll also listen to music on a Discman and realize how nice it can sound when it's not compressed to MP3 format.

It's not like that because the improvisation makes it automatically democratic. No one's leading anything. I didn't have to worry about anyone feeling involved. It was just the most natural, easy process of making music.

There is no decision to be more or less comic. I don't feel more or less humorous in my day-to-day. These things are accidental.

I don't love CDs more than anything else, but I was just playing around with the idea that they could be something you're momentarily keeping hold of as everything is passing by.