I'm always sort of looking for projects that I can sort of put out into the world, into the public sphere, and to somehow cause an effect. I want to be able to create projects that sort of are going to make people think and think in this sort of magical, sort of fantastical way.

I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.

I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.

To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It's exhausting.

You can't trust an artist that just makes good records.

I think I have always had a pretty strong creative impulse. And that has probably saved me from abandoning myself completely.

I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.