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.

I can't relate to the process of just disappearing and writing a record, all at the same time, followed by the sort of drudgery of going out on tour and trying to recreate the record, playing the same 12 songs every night.

The earth almost looks like it's packed down and dense from so many feet treading over it.

Music as a social conduit has always been important to me.

What you see with your eyes when you're making music is going to have a profound effect on what you hear.

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

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.