I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.

If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult

I never wanted to write the sort of song that said, 'Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!'

You can hear the profile of a sound, in retrospect, so much more clearly than you did at the time. And I think one of the things that's going to be nauseatingly characteristic about so much music of now is its glossy production values and its griddedness, the tightness of the way everything is locked together.

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.