Over the last 10 years, there have been so many incredible albums created in bedrooms by people who never would've gotten an album deal.

Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.

I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.

i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.

I mean, I've never been thinking that if you're a fan you have to buy everything that somebody puts out. I mean, you've got a choice. If you don't want it, just don't buy it. It's also a reaction to YouTube and sharing of files. A lot of it is really bad sound, really low quality. So the librarian in me wants it at least to exist there so that in 20 years when I'm sitting in my rocking chair, it will still exist in the best sound quality possible, even though it only sold 1000 units or whatever. As much as I love the whole pirate kind of thing, the quality suffers.

People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.

I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.