"I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism."
"One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things."
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Source: Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. January 20, 2010.
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