There's a lot that's happened in my life that maybe I didn't want to happen, but I suppose it's led me to exactly where I am now.

I need to keep my dancing on the right side of weird, otherwise it might get a bit like "American Idol."

We try to make the sound hold as much relevance as it does on the record you know, we don't try and interpret it in a different way.

I don't believe in anything blindly supernatural.

I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story that orbits the literal prose must happen in the reader's imagination. Who knows, maybe the dwindling attention spans means a lucrative future for short story writers.

Along with John Hughes, he's probably the biggest influence. Would be awesome not only to meet him; he's one person I'd also definitely like to work with.

So many characters are governed by the consequences of their actions, and I wanted to have a character who is the exact opposite.