A day off after a show with no agenda in a foreign city is about the most fertile creative situation I can imagine. Just walking with nothing to do, killing time and hearing the sights and sounds of an unfamiliar place.

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.

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

When I'm onstage, I'm completely comfortable, and I feel very vital and alive.

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

I'm not a home-studio guy. I spend a lot of time working by myself developing songs, but I really need some other counterpart to help me pull it all together, because you go nuts working if I had to finish an entire project all within my own head.

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