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.

It's not set in stone. I like to keep it rolling and changing, and so I am like, "Great, I get to remake my song."

I'm coming from a place that's more experimental and indulgent already, so for the last 10 years, it's been more like, "How can I defend my own sensibilities by writing a nugget of a little catchy pop song?" That's how I'm stretching myself, by writing something really simple.

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.

I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.

I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.

I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.