I know that there are energies that vibrate frequencies that are so subtle you could say that they exist in a different territory or realm or sphere, and people mistake these frequencies for ghosts.

I aspire to feel like a child, how about that!

As I get older, there's this new realisation and it's almost like a relief, and that is that I can never be who I once was, but only who I want to become.

I'm getting older and I'm just coming to terms that I'm stuck with me so I better try to like myself.

I'm deeply conservative and I'm profoundly boring.

I collect head shots from bands.

I love almost every Britpop band.

When anyone dies, it's sad.

I'm just trying to make rent and do my work.

Basho is the great poet of Japan, writing in the second half of the 17th century, but his work is still incredibly fresh.

Anne Imhof is a powerful artist from Germany making work that is totally interdisciplinary.

My number-one hero in terms of interdisciplinary art is Laurie Anderson, but I've always admired anyone who can think way beyond any one medium.

I love Oasis.

Pay attention to your breathing.

The only real moment is now.

It's very powerful to shut down your computer and escape into the real world.

Am I a pro-cult person? In no way!

Real hippies don't like me at all. They can smell a real hippy.

I don't even know what a hippy is. I mean, hippy is an evolution of the Sixties movement. A time when people were trying to make a difference, trying to write songs that were political. People grow old. The hippy camp kind of breaks off into different sects.

We all have our vices, you know. One of my vices is ice cream.

I don't think I'm getting better, quote unquote, as a singer or guitar player. But I'm more comfortable in this particular space. I get better at being a bad singer, so to speak.

I can see my songs in a movie as long as it's a movie no one will watch.

Whether I'm on a major or an indie, I don't think this is important, but at the same time I do.

I support things that are very close to my heart: mostly LGBTQ rights.

I live in a total bubble where I assume everyone is super-liberal and democratic.

I don't make art to make money, I make art so I can make art.

Dad had four world records, and they happened to be Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Ali Farka Toure. I tried singing like these people, and it didn't work.

At 15 I discovered girls and '90s ska.

I want to say that Beck is incredible. He is an art machine.

I look at making records like you make a dish. A culinary experience. The way you throw in a tambourine, it's like spices or herbs. The main part of the song is the stock.

For a long time, soul music was maybe one of my favorite kinds of music.

A soul singer is always singing to their crowd. They're always singing about their woes to you. And I really appreciate that when a singer is making you feel... when they're directing it at me. When they're including me.

At some point in your life, if you live in Venezuela, you come across or own a cuatro. Either at school, either at camp, either at a friend's house, at a birthday or Christmas or bar mitzvah, you end up with a cuatro. It's like a must.

Let's take fashion seriously, but not ourselves so seriously. Or reverse that, maybe don't take fashion so seriously, but take yourself seriously. Actually, don't take yourself seriously, that's for sure. So, yeah, take fashion seriously, just not yourself.

Growing up in Caracas, Venezuela, the ubiquitous music is salsa, cumbia, merengue, a little bit of samba.

When I came home my parents were listening to Pakistani Qawwali music, like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, they're listening to music from Mali, like Ali Farka Toure, they're listening to Brazilian songwriters, like Gilberto Gil, to opera, to Neil Young even, things you don't hear as a kid in Caracas. I love all the music they turned me onto.

I was just a huge fan of Blur, Suede, Elastica and Pulp, of course, even Menswear and Ocean Colour Scene.

John Cage is someone I got into as a visual artist, before I even knew his music. I don't think a lot of people even know that he does visual art.

Venezuela is incredible, but Caracas? Oh God, I hate it. The sidewalks get smaller every time I go back.

Caracas was a crazy place in the early Nineties. For instance, when I was 11 years old, I pierced my ear. No big deal, right? But everyone was so scandalised that they shut down the school.

I believe we are all dual beings. Some cultures actually believe we have two souls.

Canada has really grown and grown as this unexplored and very mysterious and exotic place to me.

Personally speaking, Canada is becoming more and more beguiling and mysterious and I feel as though I really need to explore it.

Coming to Canada, I'd really like to see Sasquatch.

I guess I don't want everyone to know what I'm doing every second.

I've always said that musicians are the comics of my generations and comedians are the politicians of my generation.

People love to take sides, but it's not effective. It's not really an effective way of communicating something, because you're either already part of the side or you're going to feel attacked and get defensive.

I was born with a beard. We're quite hairy down in Latin America. We don't have to use sponges when we wash dishes. We just use our baby beards.

I love 'Star Wars.'

I don't ever think of myself as a dark person or a ruined person in any way. I just feel happy to be alive, and to be able to love.