The little boy in me always wanted to be a treasure hunter.
A lot of the stuff I listen to is glitchy electronic stuff and stuff with beats.
I've been trying to write really simple songs to make them sound like they're coming out of a satellite that's crashing into a gas giant or something.
I think maybe I'm trying to forget or not be so conscious about plastic circuitry and just go for the feeling.
Daniel Johnston is the purist and most unpretentious artist of our generation
I hate the sound of my own voice. It's just up there, sort of naked and exposed. Live is hard, because on my records, I play almost everything on a lot of stuff. In a live situation, I can't control everything. I use two different microphones. One is just clean, traditional sound, and the other one is basically a cheap cassette-recorder microphone that goes through a distortion box to emulate my voice on the record. That helps some.
I'm f**king pathetic when it comes to being an entertainer. People come because they want to see me have a nervous breakdown.
We are used to thinking of the Arabs as primitive men of the desert, as a donkey-like nation that neither sees nor understands what is going around it. But this is a GREAT ERROR. The Arab, like all sons of Sham, has sharp and crafty mind. . . Should time come when life of our people in Palestine imposes to a smaller or greater extent on the natives, they WILL NOT easily step aside.
I'm very much a word person, so that's why typography for me is the obvious extension. It just makes my words visible.
Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.
It's a privilege to work with an artist that you really care for.