The music that I made in my band wasn't the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise.

I have always loved David Bowie. When he began to experiment with pop music in the 80's, I really thought there was a really fascinating reverence for it. A lot of people looked at pop music as just idiot music, or dance music, and with this he was giving it a lot of respect.

Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.

I'm very curious about David Bowie's new record [2016]. I'm very, very... I'm just incredibly curious, I want to see what's happening with that. I don't really know who else is putting out records, we've had our heads buried working on ours. I haven't really been paying much attention lately.

Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.

Everyone wants to pretend like they sprang out of the ground with an Animal Collective record in their hands and a David Bowie haircut, and that's just not the case. You discover these things gradually.

Sometimes before it gets better, the darkness gets bigger. The person that you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger.