It's too bad music can't be like movies. For me, playing music and listening to music and creating music is very environmental. It creates a certain environment; it sets a specific mood.

Things have changed. The suburbs are developed, but other parts, like where we recorded Spirit and Danse Manatee are still woodland and farmland.

Hell is a swamp, to me - not as something fiery, but as something dank, moist, and wet.

Sometimes I have the idea right away, like, "Oh, this is what this song's about. This is how I'm feeling."

We're all living in different states and we all have different systems within those states. Even on the most basic personal level, it affects me.

In a lot of African music, the singers are just singing whatever they feel at the time - because the instrumentation is repetitive, they can come and go as they please. That's how we approach it. Not verse-chorus-verse.

There's something scary about the unknown. And maybe the scariest movies couldn't ever be made because they are too deep in somebody's head, too unknown to get out.