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

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

There's the idea that you have to know how to solve the world's problems in order to feel that something is morally wrong. I'm always back and forth between optimism and depression about the situation.

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

In the UK, tons of records are now sold in grocery stores, because there are no record stores - it's iTunes or the grocery store. And almost every band that had an impact on me was on a major label. There's value in people actually hearing things, as well.

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

While there are so many beautiful Baroque churches and it's a beautiful artistic tradition, it almost gets hideous and grotesque if you push it further. You can take something beautiful and overdo it.