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

The goal is ecstasy, but I don't want to make some sort of saccharine pop music. I want to make something that's completely uncompromising: the best possible music ever made.

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.

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

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

I went to art school and never thought I'd be a musician, but then punk rock came along in the late 70s and kind of ruined my life. So I quit art school to get involved in music and I've been doing it ever since.

I'm a producer in the old-school way - not just some slacker working on Pro Tools.