I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I'm on tour, and it's just hard.

If I think about what other people are thinking when I'm making music, I just can't do it. It's too withheld - I need to go totally over the top, and then kind of clean it up a bit and make it more reasonable after the fact.

If you focus too much on development of the visual angle, it could be a detriment to what you're doing musically.

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

There aren't many other labels who I can say are that successful, and can give me as much as 4AD gives me, and still have such a great roster.

The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you.

My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It's a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live right on the cusp of a warehouse district.