It's hard to think back. I didn't even know I was going to do it, make actual records. But I was always making up songs, once I figured out that you could do it. I think it's pretty much the same, but there's less urge to get it moving out there. There was a time when it seemed like it was really super important to the audience and now it's just medium-important for people to like us. But that's okay.

There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.

I'm just kind of a hippie. Age is not that relevant to the music.

We care if people like what we did. If you're just making records for yourself, why put them out and do all these interviews and do touring? I'm a huge music fan, and this is what I do with my artistic time. It's all I really do, except hang out with my family. I value human relationships, and it's a way for me to interact with the world and feel like I'm part of something.

I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.

Berlin is just an affordable European city that's supposed to be cool. There's nothing too deep about it.

If there can be some paradigm shift thing that you can be part of, that's cool.