I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part of yourself.

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.

That's really what keeps me playing live - appreciation. And I guess I've made a lot of wiggle room for myself to try different things and discover what I'm doing, and the audience accepts it.

I dont think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.

I still have a very nonintellectual, nonjudgmental relationship with melody and the music as I hear it all in my head.

The first half of high school, I had a girlfriend, and then the second half I got to know these guys who would just get stoned and jam. I had struck the goth thing by then, but I still thought of myself as Ian Curtis or something.

I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.