The real drag is trying to fly from country to country, day of show, with all your gear. You get hassled all the time. It's hard trying to keep it together.

It's not set in stone. I like to keep it rolling and changing, and so I am like, "Great, I get to remake my song."

I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.

Pretty much any given day, barring some major distraction, I get melodies coming to me. Lyrics don't come quite as easily. So I've been inventing little projects and challenges to sort of kick my ass with the lyrics.

Sometimes I just think we're not meant to fly halfway around the world in a day. That some kind of mutation is going to happen.

There's kind of this unequaled thrill of playing a half-finished song, it's kind of sense of slight embarrassment; like you're blushing. I like doing that. I did that with "Eyeoneye" and it was almost a curse on the song for a while; I debuted it when it was half-finished in a very public way

I just pay attention to what's in my head. That's my number-one rule.