In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.

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

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.

I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.

I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.

There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite.

Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.