"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."
"After the first record, I had no plans to ever record as Ceiling Spirits again."
"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."
"When improvising, it’s almost impossible to be non-authentic."
"Songs as we create them in the western world are in effect mathematical equations."
"The trick is to let yourself be led astray in the right places."
"A great voice can sound good on a bad microphone. But a bad voice can’t sound good on a great microphone."
"Reading makes me want to write. Strong writers make me want to be a better writer. There’s not one without the other."
"It's like putting together a jigsaw puzzle. I like to destroy it from time to time and put it together in a new way."
"The way we organize ourselves as a band has had to change to keep moving our music forward."
"The voice is such an exciting medium to work with. All at once it has so much power and flexibility as well as fragility and precarity."
"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.“
"Music in school shouldn’t be optional. It’s a part of our being."
"People crave human connection even more in this age of hyper-connectivity. I want to make sure I’m always present in my work."
"Live, people can really surrender to the music."
“Jean D’Arc armed herself to fulfil her mission. Sometimes music feels that way.”
"When someone feels something and they can convey it authentically - I’m so with them."
"The purpose of being an artist is to show what's inside you. But it's always good not to get stuck there."
"To live life is to collaborate."
“We try to keep that little light of mutiny burning.“
“DJing used to be very mechanical. So I decided to do the opposite: to give my audience everything.“
“The process of showing up fully to whatever it is, and bringing it all to that moment, creates something.“
“I find something magical in not knowing too much.”
"Turning to improvisation for me was a process of decolonizing myself."
“I actually think I am rescuing a song from death. I am tasked with its life.“
"Everyone’s personal history and ideas about what it means to be part of the diaspora are and should be very different."
“I love the initial burst when you get an idea. That's the best time to record it.“
"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."
"Singing is the most primal, fundamental, soul-expressive thing a human can do."
"The performance doesn’t really matter for me. I don’t even know how to perform most of the parts."
"If air makes us breathe, then the music that lives inside this air is also alive."
"If I’m not focused and putting my whole body into it, it doesn’t come out right."
"The music follows its own course. We don’t try to divert it."
"I once picked up Kraftwerk with my car and tooted the horn twice - a cover version of the introduction to 'Autobahn'. Nobody noticed."
“My first serious song was about my guinea pig that I had to give away. That was a very sad time for me.“
“I can do many other things than music. But it is what I get the most life from.“
“I see the end result, draw a path in my mind and start walking towards it.“
"If we'd shift our focus from sight to listening, our world would undergo profound transformations."
"I don't try to be different as a drummer. But I don't stop it either."
"We could never recreate this again."
"We’ve never had a drummer. Maybe that's why I put emphasis on percussive phrasing."
"There is something cathartic about beating the hell out of something."
"I can't say for certain. But we probably didn't get everything wrong."
"If you had told a Renaissance artist they were original they would’ve thought it was insulting."
"Being in the creative flow is the most tangible experience of what we don’t understand."
"Mixing up a negative world view with “realism“ can result in the reversal of progress."
"Fuck what the people want! Our music isn’t supposed to be comfortable."
"The human voice is deeply influential. We hear it even when we don’t."
"Songwriting, to me, is just letting yourself be led in new directions."