I really believe there's more honesty in one live show than there may be in my whole output.

What you see with your eyes when you're making music is going to have a profound effect on what you hear.

There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.

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'm coming from a place that's more experimental and indulgent already, so for the last 10 years, it's been more like, "How can I defend my own sensibilities by writing a nugget of a little catchy pop song?" That's how I'm stretching myself, by writing something really simple.

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

You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio.