People assume that somehow fame and wealth will keep mortality at bay.

The demise of the monolithic record industry has been, for a lot of people, really liberating and emancipating.

I love lots of different types of music, but it's music that has this up-swelling of beauty and emotion that is most important to me.

It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently.

I learned in the last few years that it's really unhappy and really unsustainable to try and base your well being on something as arbitrary as record sale and critical acclaim and the interests of the public. All of those things are so fickle. So my approach now to music is I want to make records that I love, and I hope that other people love them, then that's OK.

I have nothing against bombastic music, but when it comes to making albums, I'd prefer to make music that has a sort of vulnerable subtlety to it.

I love it when celebrities fall apart, you want them to fall apart like Charlie Sheen.