“It’s cool but also a little creepy.”

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.

There’s no real template to follow these days for what a band should and shouldn’t be – bands are just becoming these weird little Internet avatars that you either follow or download or interact with in some removed way.

When you completely extract yourself from anything familiar.

I think the Internet has a way of coaching you into this state of mind where you think that every step you make needs to completely supersede the last.

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

There’s something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility.

But all you can do is ignore the annoying hum of the machine and focus on making art that makes you excited to be alive.

You want to have fun but you also want to work well. Sometimes I was quite happy at Ferrari, because we would have fun, but then they could not stop having fun and go back to the real work.

Whenever I climb I have to also entertain.

You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera.

It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.

I also want them to know that being successful is not the real world – that their parents get treated better because they’re on TV.

But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.

I saw greatness in John and he lived up to it. I also saw a tremendous competitor who loved to win.

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.