Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.

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

What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.

Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.

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

The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.

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