I never feel that I have to adopt a character. It's more the way I choose to present the music and that's always based on what is right for the song.

I do take enormous interest in what's going on. I try to see whatever I can, whenever I can.

I really don't pay too much attention; I don't go out of my way to read any interviews.

When I write - I always write on my own - I demo those songs on a four-track.

I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing a novel seems impossible.

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited. That gives me energy to want to make new things, and it forces me to hear things in new ways, which then can only help to say things in a new way.

Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.