"I’ve had 40% of my tongue removed. I’ve had to learn to sing a different way."
"Misunderstanding is one of human beings’ most profound features."
"I seek to master the breath that brings me freedom in my singing."
"Singing has always been a mystery for me. It still is!"
"In the best moments, I am really transported somewhere else."
"Sounds will always carry a watermark of the place they came from or the creature who made them."
"The trick is to let yourself be led astray in the right places."
"The process of knowing oneself is related to the process of growing as a musician."
"Reading makes me want to write. Strong writers make me want to be a better writer. There’s not one without the other."
"Writing songs is like chipping away at stone to find what’s underneath. As if it’s just waiting there."
"I collaborate almost exclusively with enthusiastic specialists. They don’t need to care about time and money."
"In electronic music, we are gods creating our own universe. It's total freedom."
“We need to express who we are to each other. Music does a good job of that.“
"Sometimes it's a little limiting to just work with your own voice."
"People crave human connection even more in this age of hyper-connectivity. I want to make sure I’m always present in my work."
"I’m always disappointed when a record isn’t just two side-long instrumental pieces."
“Jean D’Arc armed herself to fulfil her mission. Sometimes music feels that way.”
Dexter+Franz about a reel to reel tape deck with a monumental impact on workflow.
"The purpose of being an artist is to show what's inside you. But it's always good not to get stuck there."
“As a woman in a male-dominated musical genre, I have been isolated and patronised from a young age.“
"To live life is to collaborate."
"I call it the buzz: Frequencies that touch us, remind us of home, or a lover, the ocean, a feeling of bliss."
"We should pay more attention—no matter the sense, no matter the tool, no matter the method."
“The process of showing up fully to whatever it is, and bringing it all to that moment, creates something.“
"Turning to improvisation for me was a process of decolonizing myself."
“An evening of YouTube can really push forward something buried within you.“
"The word ‘music’ derives from an ancient word for “magic”. Music is magic."
"There is nothing more uplifting than the sound of a loved one quietly snoring whilst you are awake reading."
"I am in dialogue with all living things in some shape or form."
"The idea was to invite a group of friends and retreat to this desert house for two weeks. In the end, Franz was the only one to commit."
"The performance doesn’t really matter for me. I don’t even know how to perform most of the parts."
“Not taking a stand against what’s happening in the world is convenient.“
"I think we should teach self sufficiency in schools. Not how to sell yourself on Tik Tok."
"There is no ‘fix’ or ‘update’ for the legacies in these technologies."
"The music follows its own course. We don’t try to divert it."
“I can’t stand going through manuals to learn about how things work. I just start twisting knobs.”
"There are many times during an improvisational situation where you are not searching for anything … it is just happening."
“I can do many other things than music. But it is what I get the most life from.“
"Bands like Radiohead or Phoenix seem to have a good internal balance of friendship, ideas, hard work and method. We like that."
"When you’ve got that student mentality, the discovery never ends."
"I don't try to be different as a drummer. But I don't stop it either."
"We could never recreate this again."
"My singing has improved since I started learning to tap my feet while singing."
"Many artworks labelled as "plant music" are problematic because they emphasise the processing and not the plants' sensibility to sound."
"I can't say for certain. But we probably didn't get everything wrong."
"We think we’re controlling the process. But the result confirms that we’re really not."
"If you had told a Renaissance artist they were original they would’ve thought it was insulting."
"There are still so many great songs out there. I want to go grab one of them before someone else takes it."
"I totally have misophonia. But no worries, I’ve found a support group online."
"Fuck what the people want! Our music isn’t supposed to be comfortable."
"You can't replicate human creativity that easily with artificial means."
"Songwriting, to me, is just letting yourself be led in new directions."
"Groove, Swing and rhythmic feel? To me they’re just concepts. Made up belief systems."