You make your work and you can't ask for approval when you're doing it. Otherwise, it's going to be untruthful in some way.

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

Maybe in the future I'll put out someone's one-off project, but generally I don't have time.

You make your work and you can't ask for approval when you're doing it. Otherwise, it's going to be untruthful in some way.

I'm always trying to push myself into unfamiliar places with the music, sometimes without success, I have to admit. But I'd rather be there than relying on a style that people recognize and want to follow.

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.

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.