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.

You find ways to push yourself into the sound through repetition. It doesn't stay the same. It morphs constantly.

I like loud electric guitars because I like how you can just lose your entire being in the sound. But I can't find myself in a situation where our band Swans is doing typical chord progressions - it just seems cliché to me. Even changing chords sounds like a cliché sometimes, though it happens occasionally in our music. But you find ways to push yourself into the sound through repetition. It doesn't stay the same. It morphs constantly.

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

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.

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.