If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.

What happens with notation is that it reduces things to a language which isn't necessarily appropriate to them. In the same way that words do, you get a much cruder version of what was actually intended.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

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.

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

It's amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.