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I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust?

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I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.

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This is the way I wanna die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song.

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When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.

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I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was a really nice job to have, but only a tiny amount of people heard those songs, and I didn't make a living from it, and eventually I begged my parents to let me move back into my room.

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I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.

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Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience.

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I'd always wanted to work in the studio and experiment with sounds. Things that I'm really influenced by and that I love are like The Beatles and Radiohead, and all those records by bands whose music is really involved.

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I've done that kind of stuff in records, where you start going back and you want to just redo everything, destroy everything, because you think it all sucks and you can do it better.

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