I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to.

My goal is to make one-not a hodgepodge, but just the sort of record that I would want to listen to.

I always feel kind of absurd and presumptuous presenting a speech.

There are a lot of great animal rights organizations who save dogs and save cats, but the Humane Society is actually really good at working with Congress and getting legislation actually passed.

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

In some ways it's hard to see electronic music as a genre because the word "electronic" just refers to how it's made. Hip-hop is electronic music. Most reggae is electronic. Pop is electronic. House music, techno, all these sorts of ostensibly disparate genres are sort of being created with the same equipment.

I still never get recognized. Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same.