It's like you don't know you're making a record unless you're half-killing yourself.

I've always felt that dark lyrics with dark music is pretty useless. Maybe that's a strong statement - not useless, but for me, it's just boring.

I've always had levity in my songs, so I like to turn things over, twist them around, and make fun of myself.

You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio.

Norman is a very up-close, personal, character drama and I'd like to do something more zoomed out, a little more pastoral, some sweeping epic. I'd like to try something different.

In New York, I'm playing in a church, solo, doing instrumental stuff. There's talk of doing more, like, installation-type things with some of the specimen horns I've played through. Just filling a room in a museum with these horn-speaker sculptures and then making loops that run all day, and you walk around the room and sort of mix the sound by where you stand. That's all way in the future, but that kind of stuff is a different way of thinking about performing.

The anti-aging advert that I would like to see is a baby covered in cream saying, 'Aah, I've used too much'