Fly with me, touch the face of the true God. And then cry with joy at the depth of my love.

I think I'm a maker of songs, and songs are like films or a picture: You put them over there, and they have nothing to do with you.

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent.

Well, I'm quite a self-deprecating person.

I feel like "Not For Long" was one for me just because I got to work with two people that I looked up to...

You can sing a very aggressive word in such a way that it's very funny. You can change words, completely turn them around on their head so that they mean exactly the opposite of what they are written down. There are endless possibilities which I think Diamanda Galás is doing already. She turns everything upside down by the way she sings it. She makes you feel nauseous or horrified or ridiculous just by her voice. I think that's an incredible power.

Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.