Most of the songs that I appreciate are lyrically vague.

I've literally opened it up to suggestions and it's totally chaotic and kind of a bad idea. You don't need the actual feedback to get a sense. When you're showing a song for the first time, people can feel that newness.

I really believe there's more honesty in one live show than there may be in my whole output.

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'

I've done my share of busking, and it's fun until it isn't. There are musicians in the subways that will make you cry, they're so good.

The real drag is trying to fly from country to country, day of show, with all your gear. You get hassled all the time. It's hard trying to keep it together.