I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.

It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician working on himself. We don't need to hear who is more clever with synthesizers. Our cleverness has created the world we live in, which in many ways, we're sorry about.

I think you have to be completely merciless with yourself.

When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.

I actually get a metallic taste in my mouth when I think about electric music.

I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart.

If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less and less alien as it continues to live.