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.

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.

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

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'm the band leader. That's not to say that the other people are my minions - they all put in a tremendous amount of personality, and push the music in ways I would never expect.

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

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