Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

I put a lot into my records, and I won't release anything I'm not totally thrilled with.

I've always had levity in my songs, so I like to turn things over, twist them around, and make fun of myself.

Most records, you build from the drums and bass up. This one, we started with the vocals in Nashville and recorded them live with just the guitars and tried to make that complete and lovely-sounding without any adornment at all. I really wanted to get something with the vocal that I've never gotten before Armchair Apocrypha.

I finished touring the last record and I started recording new .I never really left the bubble, which is I think a good thing. I was just very focused. Maybe I should have taken a break or something, and not done such a long push.

Songwriting requires some sort of ceremony to even get the process started, and it can be somewhat arbitrary.

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.