NC: [laugh] Okay, okay. Now I feel pressure. So, did you enjoy playing Primavera Sound festival?
AP: Oh, I loved it. I LOVED it.
NC: Vivian Girls joined you on stage, I mean was it like totally spontaneous or…?
AP: Well, we toured together in the United States and that tour was great and then we haven’t seen each other for a long time and we saw each other again at the Primavera festival and they were touring even after we stopped touring in the United States so they’ve been touring for a longer longer time, which is crazy… Yeah, it felt good. I loved playing the festival, Neil Young was amazing and My Bloody Valentine… I mean the best bands. The best.

NC: Do you think you’re like… a genius?
AP: [laughs]
NC: A lot of people think that, I read that…
AP: A lot of people think I’m an idiot.
NC: Well yeah, that too. But do you think that’s flattering? You know…
AP: No, no, it’s just talk. I am not a genius. I am not a genius.
NC: Your band is one of those bands where people are either like “They’re great” or like “They suck”.
AP: Oh the band, the band is AWESOME. My band is rad. They, um… A lot of hard work, a lot of practice and it took years, years of trying to get a band that is capable of doing what they do. Years.

NC: I read that you worked with R. Stevie Moore. I’m a big fan of his so I was wondering – how did that come about?
AP: He’s a good friend of mine, I’m glad to say that he’s a friend of mine. And I’m a fanatic of his music.
NC: Did you listen to him a lot before you started recording or…?
AP: Well, yes. I got into him about 4 years before I sent him The Doldrums when I first recorded it and I just found his adress on the internet, he had a website that he had just started and I was looking up bands all the time, seeing what happened to them. And oh, R. Stevie Moore is still…
NC: He’s still alive!
AP: [laughs] He is still alive! And so I just sent him my record and that was my first e-mail, I just started a hotmail account, that was like 1999. And the first e-mail I ever got was from him.
NC: That’s so nice.
AP: And he wrote me…
NC: Did you print it out and frame it?
AP: Pretty much, I preserved it. I mean I was so excited, I didn’t know if I was sending it to an office or… Anyway, he wrote “Wow, I’m listening to the CD and it’s amazing”. I couldn’t believe it when I read it! And after that I said to myself like, you know, I can’t ever be a rock star anymore because he’s too cool. So I vowed to make sure that everybody knows about him, if they know about me, they know about him.
NC: That’s nice.
AP: And that’s forever. You know, I can’t do it anymore. I can’t be a cocky rock star anymore.

NC: One last question: What’s your favorite dress?
AP: [laughs]
NC: You wear dresses at shows…
AP: This is a Croatian dress. It is. It was given to me by Diana. Diana’s dress is my favorite dress, I will wear it forever.
NC: Ok, thanks for your time.
AP: Good questions.