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

The sexuality of children - there's a lot friction there. That tension interests me a lot.

At a certain age, children are total Id - they're anything but beautiful little flowers. That always interests me. The place where the ego and the superego start, and where guilt and socialization and morality takes place, the true root of it.

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

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.

I got involved, for the most part, in the actual song construction, lyrics even. I didn't want to write the lyrics, but if there was a howler in there, I definitely pointed it out. Just trying to bring it up to a higher level. Of course, after a couple records, people get fed up with that. That's fine.

I used to routinely break my ribs doing stupid things onstage, but I have a healthy fear of breaking my bones now.