The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.
My job is to file things! I'm not going to be like, "Mr. Jacobsen from Oakland, California" - just listing his problems, like a rap.
I think that from the beginning of me making music, I always had it in my mind to combine things that I like to listen to in a way that I had never heard before.
I love people like Kate Bush and Stevie Nicks and David Bowie - people that project themselves as characters and that contextualizes the music.
There's nothing more fun than feeling frequencies and learning about equipment - everybody should do that. But if you're going to put your heart into an album and you want to give it to the world and add to the conversation, I think it's really important to take your time.
I didn't want to make a record that's just drones or completely experimental. A lot of the time bands that make this psychedelic style of music are just a bunch of dudes hanging out together and jamming.
I saw a lot of drugs and strange things when I was younger, but I also think it was a positive experience because I was surrounded by these really interesting, beautiful people that were trying to get their lives back on track.
Capture a shadow, dance with the wind, stand in a rainbow, begin at the end.
And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.
Anything nice that's said about me is diametrically opposed to who I am.
Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle.