There are too many things to count that I like about London.
I was a total music nerd. I grew up on Perry Street in the '80s. My father wrote books about jazz, so I was always at the 'Village Vanguard.'
I've been studying on my own. I'm not really trained. I went to school for about a year and a half. I never really studied music, but, I mean, I did. I studied for two years, maybe.
I think it's always a mistake when you start connecting a band to a personality. You begin to limit what you're able to do.
I used to produce this band, Dragons of Zynth. There's something about their live shows, which, to me, is ultimate. I mean, you feel like somebody could get hurt when you go see them live.
I guess, like, the whole thing with music is - you're a little bit in control but not fully in control. Which is kind of the fun of it.
I studied classical music for a year. Then, I studied jazz for a year at the New School, and then I got kicked out. You had to go to your class, so I don't know if that counts as studying. I didn't study jazz. I was supposed to.
It's even exhausting for me to think about remixes because there were so many Miike Snow remixes.
There are major advantages to remaining out of the radio for a long time before we have something that crosses into the mainstream properly.
When I was a kid growing up, we had a cherry tree in the backyard, 100 years old. I climbed it, and it gave shade in the summertime and excellent cherries in the late summer. Having cherry blossoms around gives the best springtime vibe ever.
