People tend to eat through the cello. They tend to take out the things that make it beautifully cello-y sometimes.

When you're touring, it's somehow hard to focus on other things. I know other people can do it, but I really can't.

I've been making the recordings for a long time, and I have tons and tons of them. I'm like a digital hoarder or something - everything is on like hard drives and whatever.

I'm really terrible at sort of figuring out the thing that's going to make the money, I guess.

I find that I'm always struggling with the noise of the city. When I get a good take, there will be a horn or a siren or something. So it makes me very conscious of outside sounds, which in a way maybe led me to incorporate the field recordings.

People tend to eat through the cello. They tend to take out the things that make it beautifully cello-y sometimes.

I feel like these sounds are the ultimate kind of free sounds, the ultimate public domain sounds. And I feel like people put them in completely different contexts, and they mean something different to everybody.