I get starstruck really easily. I love music so much - it sounds so silly to say that - so if I'm playing a festival and somebody I love, like [Primal Scream's] Bobby Gillespie, is there in the backstage area, I'm like, "Wow this is amazing! There they are!"

I like California a lot more than New York these days.

I get really affected by songs as a music listener - they mean so much and they feel so significant.

Progression is important. I'm always going to play music in the general vein of rock'n'roll, but when I started I was very much associated with the West Coast lo-fi thing and I didn't want to get anchored in with anything that was just in vogue for the time being.

I think it would be nice to be a prince.

I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.

I'd like to thank myself, and congratulate myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.