I didn't want to do something typical.

Eventually, if you're experimenting with a sound that's unfamiliar, it gets absorbed, and somebody comes and does it better, and it becomes part of a vocabulary.

It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener.

[Early on,] the attitude was that what I was doing wasn't music.

I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

Whether you're aware of it or not, any kind of collage idea becomes a part of how you see the world once you incorporate media and internet and video games and all these things.

The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.