I'd hear some beautiful Sade or Kings Of Convenience ballad remixed in a club and I liked that these simple little songs seemed to be masquerading. They had put on superhero costumes, got all beefy, and here they were on the dancefloor. I was interested in that. I can't make electronic beats, so I leave it to the pros like Boys Noize and Chromeo.

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There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.

metal-fans fighting real

So, I'm on Sesame Street, walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. Sesame Street is just a crazy great place to be.

crazy stupid fun

I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charm... by Feist

I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

charmed dickens london

I'm a nostalgic person and I really like rehashing and digging ar... by Feist

I'm a nostalgic person and I really like rehashing and digging around the mental trunks.

digging nostalgic trunks

I find it pretty fascinating how humans keep gravitating towards these giant centers. I went to this walled medieval village in France this year, and it was truly the most crazy, beautiful, bizarre place I've ever been.

crazy beautiful years

The group-effort sound in recording of Sea Lion is like, you really hear all the people in the room and hear them interlocking. Theres a real freight-train energy of all these people at the same time playing.

real sea people

It may be years until the day by Feist

It may be years until the day

dream may years

If you calculate every single thing you could possibly need in your life, you would need no more than 200 people to keep all that afloat: a doctor, food, wine, cheese-eating friends, the person who makes paper, the shoemaker.

doctors wine people

No matter who weaves in and out of your life, regardless of the quality of those deep friendships and familyships, I'm the only common denominator at this point who's been with me the whole time. And there's this sense of trying to make sense of that ultimate solitude. It's not a negative or even a positive. It's just a fact.

quality solitude trying

Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.

skills writing way

I don't think that village idea of actually knowing what you're contributing to the whole exists anymore.

knowing ideas thinking

When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean necessarily in the flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way.

casting self mean

Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.

romantic-love happiness people

I'm in the countryside outside of Paris, in a beautiful old manor house. The studio is in the basement, but we decided to set everything up in the old parlor and dining-room area so we can look at each other and (at) the sunshine coming through the stained-glass windows. It's pretty idyllic, and I think it's spoiling me. I'll have to go back to regular life after this.

sunshine beautiful thinking

I think I prefer the constant renewal. It's almost like sandpapering down any details or any contour of familiarities.

renewal details thinking

Any kind of anthemic song, for the most part, they're on the positive side of things. It's not hard to identify when a melody is just one degree too complicated or one degree too simple and where that line of pop memorability lies.

simple song lying

And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.

simplicity littles joy

I know more than I knew before I didn't rest I didn't stop Did we... by Feist

I know more than I knew before I didn't rest I didn't stop Did we fight or did we talk.

fighting knows

All the girls who have photos of them at parties, like, "Woo!" - that's what someone's going to see of their grandma.

party grandma girl

I know I'm sane I don't give a care for the crown or the shield I will not protect you or happily yield To the one who makes me come undone

crowns yield giving