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

I'm just trying to get my body in shape so that I can handle it. It's a very physically demanding thing. I've been doing it for 16 years, so I know what I'm going into now. I'm trying to stay calm and not panic.

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

Most of the songs that I appreciate are lyrically vague.

There's songs that could either be taken as a conversation between two people, like "The Privateers," or "Why," from a much earlier record. Or "Glass Figurine." That's my version of a relationship song.

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.

You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I’m going, or when I’ve lived in a place so long that there’s no chance I could possibly get lost.