The shows are the main way our lives have changed.

I feel really comfortable playing to people who've never heard Beach House before. We've always had fun opening because you get to try to impress people.

There's too much emphasis on backstory and personal stuff in music now - it's not going to make the music better if I hear that you did karate for the six months leading up to it.

Music is about your feelings.

Twitter has to be about art. It can't be about banal things. Banal things and art are two different worlds.

It's great when a huge amount of money goes from a dumb corporation into the hands of an awesome band with brilliant ideas who can use it to keep being a band for a year, as opposed to a band that's already huge taking one of those things - that's more pathetic.

We do say no to a lot, but we also say yes; I find ways of coming to peace with certain things. Sometimes a writer or actor will reach out and make it very personal.