What really helps me is being able to record my albums at home - I have more fun experimenting that way, as opposed to working with an engineer, in which case I have to deal with the humiliation of doing take after take, and that can get frustrating.

To me music is the centre of the universe and the voice of the spirits and the voice of God and the voice of all the people who have lived and died...At least the ones I'm connected to.

If anything unfolds, it's supposed to

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

I don't want to be on the radio. I don't want to be on Mtv.

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

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.