I think the implausibility in some ways redeems me from having to complete it.

I've read in a couple stories that I was raised Episcopalian, but that's not true. I think that's just people assuming things. In some ways, I wish I was raised Episcopalian. I was kind of raised hodgepodge.

I think I get a lot of ideas from when I was a kid, listening to Casey Kasem's 'American Top 40.'

I'd like to do a record that doesn't even reference actual places. Because I think it's kind of an open-ended concept. It doesn't have to be taken so literally.

Audacity is central to everything I do. A lot of times I think my work is about just seeing if I can get away with it.

The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the U.S. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last.