I'd always wanted to work in the studio and experiment with sounds. Things that I'm really influenced by and that I love are like The Beatles and Radiohead, and all those records by bands whose music is really involved.

We're living in a den of thieves

I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift.

It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body.

I just think music is one of those frontiers where people really want the "I" to be you.

It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing.

Somebody's got to tell all the people to be like the water