When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie.

My experience with being on a record label over the years has been when both of your agendas are in sync, and they're the same goal, it's great to have another army of people and resources and money. But most of the time, they're not the same. Their agenda is just simply to sell plastic discs at any cost, and yours is to preserve - at least in my case - your integrity, and hopefully sell some plastic discs, too.

Sometimes I think I spend my whole life trying to figure out where I fit in.

Being human is a lot more difficult than being on tour.

Try to find the right balance of keeping things exciting and treating your audience with respect, and also treating yourself as an artist with respect.

For each film, you try to create a whole world sonically, having a sense of identity through instruments used, or recording techniques.

Left to my own devices, in the face of the climate change deniers, the madness and the greed-based decision-making, and propaganda that's been floating around, it's hard not to become pessimistic.