As music became more profitable in the 1990s, it seemed like it attracted a lot of people who were just interested in the financial aspect of it, which is depressing.

I've never seen Friends; I've never seen Seinfeld. I've heard people reference these things but I've never seen them.

Lord, I want to be up in my heart.

I know it's simple, but my main inspiration is just my love of music. I know that sounds overly naive. But it's true.

When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands.

For some reason New York is the epicentre for people who hate me. Maybe this is another reason why I left New York but I get more hatred directed towards me there than any other place.

Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.