Faster Times interview

I’d revolted against its oozing softness. Now it was a sedative, the only music I could bear. Not so much a way of escaping the present as a way of tunneling deeper into its layers and textures for a few minutes. A séance.

Any instinct that I might have as a commercial animal is not even there at the beginning of a record. Perhaps it’s a part of the process for making records that have soul. I let everything unfold naturally, all ideas considered, even song choices. Never say no. As time travels, some song or some part of the record will raise its hand as the commerc