I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.

I had my gothy phase, but I was never a troublemaker or anything like that.

At 35, I'm thinking, Oh, I don't have any of that initial inspiration that I had before, all that angst. I always thought I would burn out very quickly.

In the years between 2000 and 2004, I always got the feeling that people were just starting to hear about me and they were all late to the game. I'd be out playing shows for records that I recorded back in 1999 that were just coming out.

I'm a product of my environment.

The things that keep me awake at night are things like textures and instrumentation and plotting out what things are going to do and what the sounds are that I'm trying to capture.

The music usually occurs to me as a complete sound, and then I have developed the skill of being able to translate that into a fully realized song.