We are all very lucky to live in a world where there is this much music.

I think an analogue synth is an extension of the natural world.

But I think I know just as many creative people who've never taken drugs in their life as I do who have taken a lot of drugs.

Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into

I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song.

Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people; it doesn't sound good to me. If you're making music in order to become famous or loved by the masses that's not what I'm about. When somebody's making music for the wrong reasons, I hear it right away.

For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do.