A song like "Walkabout", it's totally imitative. The goal of that song was to make people happy, and I've never really made a song to make people happy before. I really genuinely wanted people to listen to that song and have their spirits lifted.

I'll be honest with you, one of the things that frustrated me the most out the record leak thing, it had nothing to do with record sales - I mean, that's a joke. Has anybody looked at how many records anybody sells anymore? If you're not Jay-Z, a record leaking isn't going to affect you. It was just really personal.

I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound good on it.

You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste. In my case it's kind of weird because I started out being known more for ambient things and ambiguous music, but what's experimental for me is the more traditional structure. For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.

Everything I do is 100% automation, which means I'm just doing it live.

All music is devotional, whether it's devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something.

Unfortunately it's hard for me to be a fanboy for anything these days just because I see so much music.