Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does.

We, as band, always positioned ourselves between art and entertainment, which often works against us - Fischerspooner is between business models. Art is about limiting access to the product to create value, and entertainment is about dispersing it. We've put ourselves in a position where, if we reach conceptual perfection, it's career suicide.

I listen to nothing or classical music just because after being in the studio for twelve hours, the last thing you want to do is listen to anything.

The things I'm making and doing I really like and think are interesting; I'm drawn to them.

I liked it when there was a certain amount of people who did not like what I was doing. If anything, I thought that was a positive thing.

People would lambaste me or attack me, and I'd be like, "I'm being honest! I'm the one person that's being honest and sincere about what I'm doing." The rest of the world doesn't want to admit the fakery of entertainment on TV, but I love the fake. I think fake is beautiful.

On the one hand, rock is so predictable, but at the same time, the basic idea that an artist can cut through everything and make something that they believe in or make something that they love or speaks to them personally, that it can cut through the bullshit. But at the same time, the cliches of sincerity can kill that.