When a band first comes along, they should be confusing and doing something people don't accept. You don't want the first reaction to just be, "Oh, I get that."

If you can do something that doesn't rely on a major melody but still sounds immediate rather than being obtuse and devoid of anything to catch onto, that's great.

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.

Some people are better at seeing things through to a logical conclusion as far as copying things they like from other people's records; they understand what Brian Eno did and they just do it.

To stop for years and then discover that the audience is getting smaller and smaller would be demoralizing.

I find it really disappointing and cheap when someone's copied the whole drum sound from a record.

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.