I feel as though I can get an end result that works for me, but as far as recording techniques, I don't feel that confident in my abilities.

Last time I was recording, I was trying to loop on the computer, but it's really difficult because it's really different from looping on hardware.

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.

I'm really not working in a environment that's sonically pristine. It's not a conventional studio, obviously; it's a bit ramshackle.

I find when I'm touring or when I'm traveling, I just enter this other world kind of. It's much easier for me to be creative and be unselfconscious about creating when I'm home.

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.

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