If you take a little time, let's say three weeks off, after recording a song, and you listen to it every other day, you're just going to know eventually.

I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.

Some of my earlier songs are kind of more about mental illness.

There's always a tension between wanting to write a really concise, instant gratification type song that gets under your skin the first time you hear it, and wanting to really stretch out. I think it's a healthy tension.

The instrumental record is a bit subtler. It's the kind of stuff on sound check, when I first pick up my violin and start to play, the kind of melodies that just pour out of me. Some of them sound very classical. Some of them sound experimental, polyrhythmic loops that I make.

Sometimes I think I don't have much choice in the matter. It's just what happens, and I'm following my instincts the whole time.

Correlation across replicated environments adds a whole new dimension of complexity of the environment, ... You would expect most application groups to have the same set of policies. In reality, you have differences in policies. That reflects back to that whole process of manual storing in the environment.