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

Especially with music, people want confidence.

The groove can go for like three days - once I'm in it it will just keep going until I'm totally exhausted. But that's how I like to work, I like to be away from everyone and just get in the zone, and stay there for as long as I can keep it there.

Sometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird.

If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship.

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."

I don't have any money to hire actors. I just need to get people who are going to do a good job being themselves.