There is a long and interesting tradition of really marginal left-field music that becomes commercially successful. And I will, for a brief minute, fit into that tradition.

The moment somebody becomes famous, 15 years gets knocked off their life. They're gonna get divorced a few times, they're gonna be addicted to things, they're gonna be in therapy.

When I listen to gospel singers pouring their heart out to God, it's the act of pouring their hearts out that interests me.

I'd much rather go out and have music randomly presented to me by different DJs than stay home and discover it on my own.

LA is such a crumbling mess of a city. Basically in all my years of travelling, I haven't found another city in the western world that interest me as much as Los Angeles - which might sound like heresy, but most cities, history has already happened and the people living there are sort of living on the bones of the thousand years of history that's already happened there. Whereas LA is always reinventing itself.

If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.

I think it'd be great if Prince made an album of just romantic, slow ballads.