Every band wants to go believe me, not everybody makes it, but they want to.

I have this typical Ukrainian face. Even people who know my music don't recognize me most of the time, thank God.

All I want to do is sing on other people's records.

The only ones that stand out to me are people like Jonathan Richman or Robyn Hitchcock, who can make you totally cry while their music is so funny and they're hilarious. They know they're great but they also don't think they're better than you and they really invite you into their show.

I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mild cautionary notes, but they're not moral. They don't impart any Judeo-Christian ethic of any kind.

I want the recording process to be a time in my life that I will remember.

The relationship of humans to nature. We are sadly divorced from it.