The touring band is DIIV, and the songs are always written with them in mind. But the new record is going to be more "me."

We were a commodity used by corporations to make their brand look fashionable, but then they used us to keep kids out of venues.

I had these glorified ideas about San Francisco and its drug culture - I thought inspiration would just hit me and I would get these San Francisco drugs in my system and all of a sudden an amazing record would come out. But that's not really what happened at all.

To be told that you're the voice of your generation is such an incredible amount of pressure, and I haven't faced that. Maybe by the time our third record rolls around, I will. My goals are to be a band like that in five years. At the moment, though, I can't really relate in any sense to the scale that Kurt Cobain fame has reached.

I feel like every great record is like a world in itself.

I am super-interested in fashion. I love being a person whose clothes get discussed. That makes it more interesting for me.

A record is worth 10,000 live shows.