Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. Theyre all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. Theyre tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.

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

I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.

I've always felt that dark lyrics with dark music is pretty useless. Maybe that's a strong statement - not useless, but for me, it's just boring.

I can't relate to the process of just disappearing and writing a record, all at the same time, followed by the sort of drudgery of going out on tour and trying to recreate the record, playing the same 12 songs every night.

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

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