Unusual Instrumentation Quotes

There are so many different points to 'Wild World,' and it sounds quite different to what people would expect from us.

I remember playing with John Zorn and Ikue Mori in Taiwan in a school classroom. There were, like, 15 people there, maybe, and they were sitting at the classroom desks, and we played under the chalkboard. There's no difference between playing that and the 'download' festival.

Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it easier to keep things sounding different.

I still feel like I have a lot to learn in the realm of sound experimentation, and I think I would like things to get noisier and weirder and more distressed and more aggressive, but I don't know if that's something that would be suitable for public consumption.

Each record in the 'Book of Angels' series is meant to be unique in terms of the compositions.

I drive my family nuts because when I watch something on TV, I'm likely to watch it with a bass guitar. But I don't plug it in!

It's always hard to put your finger on what it is that makes Primus Primus.

'Maxim's' was supposed to be on 'Ekstasis,' but it was very much in its own world.

People are like, 'Why are you playing that five-neck guitar?' I want to hurt. I want to play.

I've purposely made my music to be challenging and different. There's some electronics, R&B, blues, Motown, country, jazz and lots of soul.

I think that Zappa intentionally made his music weird, but did it with intelligence.

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.

I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.

I guess one thing that makes my music stand out is that it is quite hard to determine what genre it is.

I was a huge fan of Damien Rice - and I am a huge fan still!

He helped make Living Things even more crazy than I wanted it to be. He added old-fashioned piano and classical folk music - that weird otherworldly vibe - all these elements got onto the record.