I have to say that being a vegan in 1986 or whenever was a lot different than being a vegan in 2012. You'd go to health foods stores and basically your choice was between Mung beans and nutritional yeast, and that's about it.

When someone comes to me and says the music I've made has affected them emotionally, that's the most gratifying part of my job.

I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.

I love the fact that no one's ever bought my record because they were enamoured of the way I look. Maybe one person. There must be someone out there with compromised taste.

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.

I sort of use as my guiding principle that show The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Whenever possible, do the stupid thing.

I'm a weird, bald musician who makes records in his bedroom and lives in the Lower East Side.