I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year.

I didn't have a home in the world, so I wanted a home in a person. I felt like I had found that, and then it was taken away from me.

The fate of a song is often established in the first 15 minutes of writing.

Vocal arrangements are something I'm working a lot with for the new songs.

The beauty of the collage technique is that you're using sounds that have never met and were never supposed to meet. You introduce them to each other, at first they're a bit shy, clumsy, staring at their shoes. But you can sense there's something there. So you cut and paste a little bit and by the end of the song you can spot them in the corner, holding hands.

I've always been against recreating or re-recording samples, but I managed to re-record one or two that were just too expensive and it was just ridiculous.

I don't have a girlfriend. No, I don't. I haven't had a relationship in years, actually. But yeah, I'm still looking. It's kind of nice to be looking for a home at the same time.