I am definitely less and less interested in music made by people that exist today, people that are living. I just see them as part of the whole stupid process of the music business, desperate (even if they feign indifference) to get noticed, trying to "make it" in the stinking music business, to become "famous" etc, and it disgusts me.

I don't want to sound like everybody else.

I used to routinely break my ribs doing stupid things onstage, but I have a healthy fear of breaking my bones now.

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

I'm more interested in pulling out strands of joy from both myself and the audience. I'm not saying the music or songs are "light," just that when they're performed with the correct commitment it's a source of real pleasure, for me anyway.

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

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.