Whenever you do anything or say anything, you're opening yourself up to criticism. But that's okay.

The film Black Orpheus is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil.

I try not get too self-aware when writing lyrics.

When I was living in Boston I worked in this store that played the college radio station. I had to listen to it all day, and I didn't care for most of it.

I always find live shows on film kind of boring. Even my favorite ones, I kinda zone out for most of it. It's just so different seeing a band in the flesh and then watching a film of it, even if you have a hundred cameras and it's shot from every angle. There's just a communal, visceral thing that never translates very well.

I studied scriptural interpretation, which is more about how people get meaning out of texts, looking at stuff in the Old Testament - Muslims, Christians, Jews, different interpretations of the same texts.

The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind.