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

I'm pretty confident that people are going to come along for the ride. If they don't, tough.

I don't want to sound like everybody else.

When I first started doing the quieter, more acoustic material in Swans, there was a lot of derision and outright hatred from the audience and press, just as in the early days of Swans when we were rejected outright because of the bludgeoning, single-minded violence of the music.

I don't throw my body down on the stage at all anymore because I'm sure I'd snap like a twig.

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

When I drink a Glass of water, it's thick and crawling with life. My mouth leads to the interior of my body - a caldron of disease, germs, and perversions of biology. I don't exist individually. I'm made of millions of living creatures, eating each other, decomposing, eating each other.