I've always found that whatever you say about indie rock, it is the most inclusive genre or title for anything. It doesn't pin you down too much, like other labels would. It's just newer, it has less baggage.

If something gets under my own skin, and keeps reoccurring, it starts to take on a certain weight and value, and I think, "I have to put this in the song. I have no choice but to mention Greek Cypriots in this song." It's a little internal challenge to myself. Like creating little imaginary rituals in yourself to help the song go from nonexisting to existing.

I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.

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.

When I start asking my friends, "What do you think this means?" And it leads to way more interesting conversations than what it actually ends up meaning in the dictionary. Like "apocryphal," for instance.

All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

I think life is a wondrous thing. I'm happy to try pretty hard.