Musician

I think there was a real lane built for indie bands during the time when Chairlift came up.

My mom wasn't thrilled about me being in a band, because she very correctly said she couldn't see any sort of stability in it.

With each project I'm always pushing for clarity.

I would love to live in Japan again, but would need to really commit to learning the language before doing it. Both my parents speak Japanese fluently, so I suppose it would feel like a tradition.

I guess I've gotten older and more sentimental, and I've realized that the love song is just the modern equivalent of a devotional.

Arcadia' was started and finished at the Medici villa in Rome.

My parents got divorced when I was really young and I was a very hyperactive kid, so both parents independently would play Enya at the house to calm me down and soothe me as a kid.

You'll see every kind of New Yorker in there. You really feel like you're in the belly of the beast when you're in Union Square.

But I wanted the karaoke-style lyrics in our music videos for two reasons: first, cause nobody has lyric booklets anymore, and when I was growing up, lyric booklets were like little bibles. I want people to be able to access our lyrics without having to go to some gnarly website with banner ads.

I was actually really stunned that my label suggested 'Door' as the single to lead with, as it's such a long and winding song.

The men's dance style in dancehall is territorial, but it's also flirtatious and it's also showing off strength by way of smooth movement that you can only do if you're really strong. It has so much attitude.

I have an opera coach who I went to as a teenager, when I was 15 and 16 years old. When I went to college, I forgot about it.

Low' was probably the album that influenced me more than any other, because of how it combined humor and impressive, glamorous, driving energy with this totally surreal soundscape production.

When I was in middle school, I loved Egyptian mythology.

I went to art school, and I studied drawing and video art, and I've always approached music so visually as a result that I found it really difficult in the past to kind of hand off music to another director, 'cause it just ends up being this kind of mid-zone where it's nobody's vision, really.

I was into music from a very early age, and I was also - I don't really talk about this that much - really into horses. I learned a lot about rhythm and about voice from that.

I really like when the lyrics in the music have an interesting relationship between one another - where they contrast each other.

I almost gave up on 'Door' so many times. I couldn't crack it. It started out as a simple song with just a chorus-verse-chorus. I felt like it needed to transform more.

Growing up, I was so compelled by artists whose looks were inseparable from their music. Bjork was my hero.

My stepfather is a baron. He has a castle in Belgium that's been in his family for hundreds and hundreds of years. It's not fancy; it's really sort of brimstone and dark. It's got a moat and a drawbridge.