You’ve been making music for a while now, what keeps you inspired?
I get inspired by shapes, colors, words, feelings, ideas—the same as everybody. Lately I’ve been really inspired by sex.
You’ve been described as an antifolk artist; do you have a problem with that definition?
No, I welcome it! Anti-folk is the scene where I got started and I still love so
much of that music—Diane Cluck, Turner Cody, Ish Marquez, Dufus, Jeffery
Lewis—you’ve got to check that stuff out!
You’ve worked with a lot of people; who was the most inspirational?
Probably I’ve been most inspired by The Doors, Beck, Turner Cody, Iggy Pop, The Strokes, Leonard Cohen, John Davis, Beat Happening, The Rolling Stones, Scott Walker and The Incredible String Band.
You’re a musician, painter and filmmaker; which do you prefer and why?
I like to sing on Mondays, paint on Tuesdays, make movies on Wednesdays, sleep Thursdays, sing on Fridays, paint on Saturdays, and make movies on Sundays.
You released an album with Binki Shapiro [of the band Little Joy] earlier this year; any chance she might come with you to Bangkok?
I doubt that she would surprise me and meet me here without me knowing about it. We have no plans to do anything more, you know. It could happen but not anytime soon.
You’ve been quite public about your use of drugs in the past; do you think it helps the creative process?
Yeah, sometimes it helps to smoke weed while I’m writing lyrics. And the [film] Wrong Ferarri was definitely written on ketamine. But I wrote Gemstones completely sober and that’s one of my favorite albums. I don’t know, I think I like to write and make artwork sober or not sober.
You recently exhibited your artworks at the Noise Kids exhibition along with Pete Doherty, Fionn Regan and Martin Creed; how did it go?
I want to have a look around. Have some drinks. I don’t know what to expect onestly, I’m excited to sing for people who have never been to one of my concerts before.
