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

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.

My favorite English teacher in high school showed me 'Brazil' when I was 15 and it blew my mind. It's one of those movies that's revealed itself in different ways as I've gone back to it over the years.

The Flaming Lips have been on Warner Bros. forever, and certainly everything I heard growing up was on a major label in some way, from the Cure to Radiohead to Bjork.

I don't think the emotional quality is the defining quality of the music but it's definitely something that people have picked up on a lot

What I miss [about church] is being forced to be in community with people that aren't the same as me.

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