Just out of curiosity, I wonder what makes music or culture or taste go in certain directions. Who knows what the forces are behind it.

I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be.

I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.

Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.