“And we use it to read album reviews and watch kitten videos… not to put those two things in the same light!”

We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around.

But I can’t ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those.

It’s difficult because it forces you to really get creative.

But it’s not anything like what we envisioned it to be. It’s almost like there’s too much choice.

There’s this really amazing quote from Jim Jarmusch about celebrating your theft that I think has become more and more prominent in music.

I remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it;

I have this eerie feeling that by the time I’m 33, reality will not exist in the same plane as it did before.

There’s a very distinct difference between a really wonderful DIY label and a soft drink company, or a car company, or a clothing brand, and you will always understand that difference.

You can’t always just put color filters in 80s aerobic videos or take stuff from public-access and look at it in this very ironic, self-conscious way. That only takes you so far.

You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.

It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.

I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle.

So I wanted to create soundscapes that are evocative of places that only exist in your head – that’s where the fun, psychedelic stuff happens anyway.

Like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.

The Internet really does create this dimension around the music that’s always in relation to what else is happening at the moment.

It’s cool but also a little creepy.

Everyone’s just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it’s a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.

When I was 25, Abba was formed. After Abba I made three solo albums. Maybe I have been productive enough.

On the last album, I didn’t want to disturb the melody with too many stories.

My debut album, ‘Forget the World,’ is all about not listening to the negativity around you and to continue to do what you love, no matter what people think.

One of the reasons why my album is called ‘Forget the World’ is because when you listen to the world, you make stupid mistakes.

I’m always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.

You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.

I had no idea what it would be like to do an album and that process was grueling and tedious but it was very rewarding.