The moment that you impose your will on another person or animal, that's when we are allowed to say you have committed an ethical breach.

The way I work on music is that I go into my studio, and I start playing music, and I see what happens, and... I never think about it.

My mother and I were on welfare and food stamps until I was 18, so I've always had this ethos of, like, 'try and make a little bit of money now because you don't know what's going to happen tomorrow.'

What I love about making albums in the 21st century is that so few people buy albums! I can make an album without any commercial concerns whatsoever.

There is nothing terribly wrong with my face, even if some of its parts aren't very inspiring.

The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.'

I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good.