I'm open to making any kind of music, or maybe making no music ever again. That's also an option, always. Who knows what'll happen.

I never want to keep doing the same thing more than once, honestly.

When I first started recording music, I was actually singing about microphones, equipment, recording.

They're all true - the cliches like 'one day at time' and 'ups and downs.'

I don't really see myself in a lineage which is fine with me. Sometimes I do try to explicitly copy an exact song, an arrangement, a sound - and I fail. And so you can't even tell I was trying to do that thing. It makes sense in my own head but I'm incapable of copying.

Clear Moon' is more... clear I guess! It's more round-sounding and it's slightly gentler. 'Ocean Roar' is more challenging and weird and darker and heavier - the idea was for it to feel like a thick fog laying on your head, versus a clear sky with the moon in it.

I'm really nervous about coming off as exclusive or elitist. At the same time, I recognize that when I put out vinyl or an expensive coffee table book not everyone can afford it or listen to it.

I'm not a perfectionist. I don't have enough patience to go over the same details over and over trying to get it perfect.

I just can't turn off the part me that asks that question over and over.

Comedy is deep and wild and I am excited about the mysteries within.

My grandpa is the funniest person in the world, straight up. But mostly everyone in my family groans when he is 'on.' I am his biggest fan.

Recording and touring are totally separate universes for me and it's strange and refreshing when they invade each other momentarily.

Nirvana was happening when I was 14, kind of the perfect age. Growing up in Anacortes, Washington, it was close enough to Seattle that it seemed like a local thing.

When you get the right people together, writing music becomes very effortless.

Great music seems to come from a lot of angst, and that angst is from great musicians getting together with intense chemistry. When that chemistry isn't there, people tend not to write great music.

I always do try to encourage my children to vote and at least exercise their right.

My father was always Labour, and my mother was always Conservative, so I tended to sort of go in the middle.

There are keyboard terrorists everywhere who hide behind a veil of anonymity to pursue their vicious slanders.

We loved country songs in New Order. That's our big secret!

My big frustration in New Order was that they played the same tracks all the time.

Bootleggers quake in fear of me ringing them on a Sunday afternoon. I call after dinner, usually.

When you're fat and comfortable, your music is going to sound fat and comfortable.

In the late '70s, the conditions that bands had to endure were, shall we say, not as civilized as they are today. People were a lot more aggressive back then. So there was definitely a lot of suffering for your art. But I would argue that was a good thing. Generally, people make better music when they suffer.

The interesting thing is that New Order finished on an okay note. It was only after we split that things got worse.