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.

I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.

A little touch of chaos and danger makes a city sexy.

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.

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

I don't like begging money from producers.

I’m not all about money, but, like most musicians, I am about survival.