Performing is great, but you are exposed to all this extra stuff that you don't have to deal with when you stop. I'm getting used to it now, but it's kind of just the fallout. It's really weird. It's not a natural situation to be in. It sounds like moaning, because I know that's what I'm supposed to do, and I'm not moaning.

It is difficult to make political art work.

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

I hate cars. They are so loud, and ugly, and full of toxic exhaust, like radiohead fans.

Nobody wins the superbowl, I win the superbowl. I am the superbowl.

Can you imagine a world in which the letter O does not exist? My name would be Thm Yrke. Think about that.

I'd go onstage doing this thing, trying to fill this arena that I can't fill because I don't understand what this is. It's like you're given a job that's beyond you. And it's taken me years to realize what works in those big situations.