Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he's around.

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

I can't tell one from the other:I find you or you find me?There was a time before we were born If someone asks, this is where I'll be.

Another Elvis will not come along. He got wasted, but it's alright.

Often I don't know what the song means until it's finished. Sometimes months later. I don't think that's bad. It implies that I don't know what I'm doing but-I think if you're able to follow your instincts, then that's knowing what you're doing.

The idea of making music from an imaginary culture was to give ourselves a set of restrictions and parameters within which to work. Otherwise, we might have just gone on all kinds of creative detours, some of which might have been interesting. But better we confine ourselves to something.