Sometimes I just think we're not meant to fly halfway around the world in a day. That some kind of mutation is going to happen.

What you see at the Field Museum is only like, 10 percent of the collection. It's birds of paradise and passenger pigeons and in all these drawers that pull out, these specimens come out and it's spectacular. And it worked out.

The instrumental record is a bit subtler. It's the kind of stuff on sound check, when I first pick up my violin and start to play, the kind of melodies that just pour out of me. Some of them sound very classical. Some of them sound experimental, polyrhythmic loops that I make.

If you take a little time, let's say three weeks off, after recording a song, and you listen to it every other day, you're just going to know eventually.

With digital sound just becomes simply information, not the sum of its parts.

I still play solo shows. And some of those shows are still some of the best, most gratifying shows.

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