In the studio you have pretty much carte blanche with whatever you're doing. You can turn natural instruments into electronic instruments.

In the studio you have pretty much carte blanche with whatever you're doing. You can turn natural instruments into electronic instruments.

I write in the studio, I don't sit around with a piano or a guitar and write songs. I get satisfaction out of that because I can finish the song really quickly. I can use whatever momentum I have. I've got to put it down, develop it, and get it as far [as I can], because the excitement of the moment of when you get that idea - you want to try and hold it and build on it and really gain strength from it. Being in the studio and writing songs like that is really the best way.

When somebody grabs a movement, you're kind of locked into it. It's all par for the course.

In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.

I like it here in New York. I like the idea of having to keep eyes in the back of your head all the time.

If you're all loaded up on love, you haven't got anywhere else to go.