I have my own record company. I have to answer to God, basically. I'm not young, so I want to make the best possible work I can before I exit.

Swans are majestic, beautiful looking creatures. With really ugly temperaments.

I like loud electric guitars because I like how you can just lose your entire being in the sound.

I really wanted to get to the animal core of rock music and eliminate anything that wasn't necessary.

Playing an old record doesn't interest me at all. It's exactly the opposite of what I want to do.

I could never release something on the label I didn't personally love. The label's really an extension of my own musical career, and I'm intensely involved with every aspect personally, so it'd be a betrayal to myself if I released something simply because I thought it would make money.

The music takes you. It has to be alive. It's like you hammer something, and the way it happens to bleed leads you into new directions.