The music is supposed to be healing.

I bring a record home, and it connects with me like nothing else. In my ideal situation, somebody will do that with my record.

For me, there's a lot of intrinsic mystery and power in folk music, but a lot of people don't perceive that music from around the world as something that fits into their lives or their psyche in any way. So I tried to present it in a different way to give it more of a chance to sink into people's heads.

We can see an anthill or a roach or a flower or anything, but we have this frame where our mind recognizes an anthill and then moves on, without taking the opportunity to have the sense of awe that we could have if we really looked at it. The montage is about taking pieces of reality and rearranging them - creating new frames to make you have to stop and look at things in a fresh way. It's basically taking pieces of everyday reality and rearranging them to show people the magic that is inherent in all of these things already.

I decided at 10 I wanted to be in a band; everyone else wanted to play football.

My songs pretty much revolve in my brain most of the time - usually, whatevers coming next.

The world is this incredibly blurry, crazy dream that I'm just sort of stumbling through.