There's still a feeling that uncensored emotions make a good song. They don't. Pure emotion is just somebody screaming at you, or crying. It doesn't communicate anything. It has to be mediated with some skill and craft, in order to communicate it to a second, a third, or a fourth person. That doesn't make it any less real. And it doesn't make it any less true. But it does mean that, yeah, it's the combination that makes it work.

When you fall in love, you feel like a missing piece of a puzzle that's been found.

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

Science's job is to map our ignorance.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

There's an old joke that you know you're in heaven if the cooks are Italian and the engineering is German. If it's the other way around you're in hell.

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