I download music just like anybody else, but it's a weird relationship when you're a musician.

I'm not an anti-online person. I get what the modern world's about and I understand that that's the nature of music dissemination.

I love vinyl, but I'm not a 'vinyl person'. I still collect, but most of my stuff is digital.

You have to make rough decisions with sequencing and work within the limitations of having good audio for 15 minutes on a vinyl side.

My peer network is international. It's people all over the place who I know, and respect their work. It's not really delineated by traditional nationalist ideas.

I'm trying to find a way to make music work as a living. People used to make their living selling albums. Those days are over! It's kind of an odd time. I guess it's kind of like writing.

I take the literary or textual aspect really seriously and I really enjoy writing weird album titles. I did a PhD; I enjoy writing.

I'm not a peak oil person. I'm not a biohazard apocalyptic kind of freak. I don't have a supply of weapons or gold bars under my house.

Vinyl's just a fun endgame step. I work with analogue signal chains too, but the mp3 is the way I listen to music.

I found all my reading and writing informed my music in subtle ways. Ravedeath came out of studying the pipe organ, going to New Jersey - the world's loudest and biggest pipe organ.

Offness yields a hypnotic effect. The brain can see simplistic patterns that lock and it's boring after a while. I don't cater to that.

A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.

He offered me a ride up from the abyss and I took it. But a ride with the devil is never free. And accepting that ride can only lead to hell.

Everything changes but change itself.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

I have a somewhat sneaky way of effecting political change.

I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.

I want to see genuine talent rewarded.

History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.

There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and educate yourself with all kinds of stories.

I've nothing against anyone following their dreams - but not if they're crap.