Daniel Snaith, better known as Caribou, formerly known as Manitoba until a lawsuit by musician Richard "Handsome Dick" Manitoba, recently played New York City's Bowery Ballroom.  Below is Wikinews reporter David Shankbone's conversation with the electronica pioneer.
David Shankbone:  How is the tour going?
DS:  How do European and American audiences compare to each other?
DS:  But they are more electronic in Europe than they are here, right?
DS:  You reach the same fans in each place?
DS:  Do you play to larger audiences over there or here?
DS:  Do you have a favorite venue?
DS:  What would be a dream venue to play?
DS:  Is there a continent you haven't played where you would like to?
DS:  Rio or São Paulo?
DS:  How has the Iraq War affected you as an artist?
DS:  Has it affected you as a person?
DS:  Do you find you're more inspired by manmade things or things in nature?
DS:  What sort of ideas inspire you?
DS:  Would you consider your music to be mathematical?
DS:  Do you have a favorite mathematician or unsolved mathematical problem?
DS:  What's a trait you deplore in other people?
DS:  What’s a trait you deplore in yourself?
DS:  You think that might be a negative?
DS:  That's a challenge for any human of whether or not to pursue something you think is a greater good or indulge yourself.  How do you wrestle with that question?
DS:  Well, we need music in this world and if people are responding to it, you’re giving something to them.
DS:  Maybe.  [Laughs]  Hillary or Barack?
DS:  What do you think of Gordon Brown?
DS:  What would be a bigger turn-off for you in bed, someone who was overly flatulent, or someone who spoke in a baby voice?
DS:  Do you have a favorite curse word?
DS:  Favorite euphemism for breasts?
DS:  If you had to choose between the destruction of the entire continent of Africa or the entire continent of Asia, which would you choose?
DS:  What are traits you respect in a woman?
DS:  It doesn’t differ in men?
DS:  What’s your most treasured possession?
DS:  Any favorite films?
DS:  What difficult question in an interview do you anticipate but are never asked?
DS:  What question are you tired of answering?
DS:  In the last year, where have you drawn most of your influence, and you can’t have been listening to them beyond a year ago.  

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Caribou plays the Bowery Ballroom