The tools are evolving, and people's interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness. That isn't what they would describe what they're doing, but the fact is they make a virtue of the sort of hand-made nature of what they're doing.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

Attention is what creates value. Artworks are made as well by how people interact with them - and therefore by what quality of interaction they can inspire.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.

Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.

Think inside the work - outside the work