Playing an old record doesn't interest me at all. It's exactly the opposite of what I want to do.

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.

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.

As far as playing playing festivals and everything, I feel like that's what I was born to do. I'm an entertainer, hopefully in the best sense.

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.

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

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.