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.

Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art.

There is something to mystery. You make up this entire world that you fit into because of what the actual music does to you.

You have to collaborate with the moment and the environment. It kind of was magnified by the house being a studio.

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

If you have sensitivity then mysticism will be part of your life. It's a very beautiful thing and a very real thing but it's not something to not take seriously and it's not something to take seriously.

Having friends who are records nerds - that's the best thing you can do, have a record-geek friend to take you far.