Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.

I think it's really hard to make songs that pursue an agenda. You can kind of do it a little bit through a character, so the character gives voice to something or their story, the story of the character tells you something, but, for me anyway, it's really hard to write directly about politics.

So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.

Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used to produce more stuff, stuff like itself - clay to be available for future use.