I Don't Want To Mislead People.

These New Bands Sound Like Gang Of Four — If Gang Of Four Sucked.

It Wasn't Just Like, "i Want To Make A Record That Sounds Like Classic Rock" At All. It Was More Like, "i Want To Make A Record That Is A Little More Unsettling And Maybe Isn't As Easily Understood Now." That Just Seemed More Important, Like, For Me To Make As An Artist, Than It Was To Make Something To Make People Feel Safe Right Away.

To Me, That Ugliness, That Grotesqueness - That's The Essence [of Life]. That's Where You Realize, It's Not About All The Consonance And The Harmony. It's All The Parts That Are Wrong That Help Explain Why We're Drawn To Something - What The Mystery Is - Just As Much As The Beautiful Things.

I'm Really Drawn To The Uncompromising Realness Of Natural Process: It's Unadorned. It's Not Very Pretty.

The Enemy Of Any Artistic Statement Is To Create Something That No One Cares About, In The Sense They Have No Opinion Either Way.