Where to begin discussing music as a tool for disrupting culture? It’s become entirely impossible in anything but the most local level. Music is now so tied up in commerce. That waters down content and intent. You are now a major-label artist. Do you feel your work is compromised as a result? It’s no more compromised than being on a big independent. I’m buying groceries and putting my little girl through school with that money. It’s an expensive world. But something feels gross about doing something that is mass-produced. There’s something to be said for playing music for your friends or yourself. But I’m happy to be doing the work I’m doing. Will you ever shave your beard? I feel like shaving it now. There are waves in the way people groom themselves. The aesthetic of radicals in the Sixties has come back. We’re at war again. It’s like a Pavlovian response if you’re not down with that shit. In my religion, I wasn’t allowed to have a beard. But I’m just a pretty hairy person.