We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing.

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters.

I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it

Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.