As a homosexual, my job is simply to sodomize mediocrity.

Audiences tend to dig the earlier stuff by any given musician, and the artists themselves always tend to prefer the thing that they're doing now.

I know so many people think my music is quite influenced by Animal Collective, but honestly I think maybe the factor is that we're both influenced by the same stuff.

I want to build an audience that's willing to follow us in whichever direction we might choose.

I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?

I want to satisfy the listener, exactly. I want to entertain the audience. I want the people to leave the show with the feeling I used to leave shows with when I was young, and I couldn't get over it for another three or four days after it. I just kept reliving the set in my mind.

It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.