Your responsibility as an artist is to experiment.

I love traveling. I love just going about on my own, feeling I have no roots.

I didn't want to try and borrow kudos from Indonesian culture. I was trying to get a fresh perspective on these instruments. I'm not doing a Paul Simon Gracelands and stealing all this African music and not give anyone any credit.

There's a really rough and relatively consistent hierarchy of concerns. My musical interests come first and principally my fascination with how notes and rhythms interlock. Then comes the technical side like programming, instruments and designing instruments. Next is production and mixing and beyond that I start to care less.

The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.

Stereotyping and generating brands around musicians I think contributes to their eventual demise.

I'll alight upon words because I think they suggest any number of things.