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I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.

Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else.

These things I sample, or clip, are things that we share - music, films, sounds. It triggers a layer of participation from the audience as they recognize the material and remember it.

I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.

In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.

When I'm doing interviews, I'm doing interviews, and when I am writing, I'm writing. I sit there with a musician and I write. It's the same process since I started writing in my twenties. I like to come in and leave with a finished song.

The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs.

You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.

I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am.

I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.