I haven't had that many people onstage for a while, and I'm looking forward to that. They're all such creative musicians in their own right. They're all complete individuals. They're not just a pick-up band. They all have their own thing going on.

I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.

Norman is a very up-close, personal, character drama and I'd like to do something more zoomed out, a little more pastoral, some sweeping epic. I'd like to try something different.

People who are thinking about your music almost as much as you are, that almost never happens.

What you see at the Field Museum is only like, 10 percent of the collection. It's birds of paradise and passenger pigeons and in all these drawers that pull out, these specimens come out and it's spectacular. And it worked out.

I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.

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