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"I wanted to perform because I wanted to be like, ‘Hey y’all, guess what? I’m not dead. I’m still here.’ This wasn’t a sombre thing following my funeral that happened earlier in the day."

"Of course it becomes hard to do that when you get dealt this sort of rotten hand, but it’s a very validating feeling to be getting to the other side of that."

"We’d need to sell a few more records first – maybe we should get in the rap game and then we can do that."

"We try to keep things democratic, which can be pretty slow at times, but it just means everyone’s putting ideas forward and that’s always a good thing."

"If we even thought about quitting he’d be the first to say ‘Dude what the fuck are you all doin’!’"

"I have no studies at all my friend. Not even musical studies. I do by my instincts, everything. I have never even been taught one note."

"I thought for myself that I would probably be 24 years old and then die at that time."

"We are a very small cog in a giant, complicated automobile."

"With this new CD, I want to go back to that more subtle approach, because this new CD, there’s no jokes on it, it’s just the album itself is a joke."

"The mindset of King Crimson has always been that the music is always played like it’s the first time."

After we get back from Australia, I think the first part of 2014, in the first four months or so, we’re going to focus on just writing these songs.

"It was really exciting and interesting for us to just throw all these different elements together and just see what we would come up with."