Some people like to say serendipitous. I like to say magical.

I didn't want to make a record that was just guitar and voice, that was just the technology available to me. At the time, I remember thinking, "I am making a Faust album." That didn't translate.

Trying to find comfort in perpetual discomfort has been my life's work.

Within America, there are extremely different place. I'm not saying it's one homogenous color. It's obviously an incredible place. There's no other place like it, and it's incredibly diverse.

There are so many bad songs that have incredible videos. It's pretty amazing, actually. The power of putting images to music is hypnotizing. It's a real power. That's a realm that I've failed at completely.

"I meditate." That's like saying "I eat." Think of all the food there is! And there are almost as many varieties of mediation.

I always wanted to move to New York because of the Velvet Underground, because of the picture that they painted of New York City.