I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin.

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'm not a home-studio guy. I spend a lot of time working by myself developing songs, but I really need some other counterpart to help me pull it all together, because you go nuts working if I had to finish an entire project all within my own head.

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

When I'm onstage, I'm completely comfortable, and I feel very vital and alive.

Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.