It's about the music, it's not about just showing people what you can do with a piece of wood with strings on it

The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.

I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.

But I have been avoiding talking about what I'm doing now because it's frustrating for people to hear about things that aren't available yet.

I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead

I'm also very impressed with the best people in experimental electronic world, like Peta and Eckart Aillers and Finez and Jim O'Rourke and Oren Umbarci and Francesco Lopez. Most of them use the computer as their main instrument.

People fall into patterns at fast speeds, when really, to have a clear musical thought - the kind of musical thought that makes a melody work - our brains just can't think that fast. At a certain point, you're going on automatic.