I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I'll black out the windows or something.

I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it's dark.

I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.

By the time I'm 50, there is probably going to be a nuclear holocaust. I should just enjoy myself.

I want to say my life inspires my lyrics, but I also try to abstract them as much as possible because I don't want to refer to my life explicitly. I'm definitely really embarrassed by my lyrics.

My great fear is that I'm the ultimate shallow person. I think about this kind of thing a lot, and about this phenomenon in our culture where people identify themselves with their interests. I've been trying not to think about it too much. It used to really upset me when people called me "witch house."

If painters could be compared to filmmakers, Bosch is the Hype Williams of renaissance painters. With Bosch, there's always a narrative that is very nonlinear - and that's the essence of a good music video.