I think life is a wondrous thing. I'm happy to try pretty hard.

With digital sound just becomes simply information, not the sum of its parts.

What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.

No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.

Every time I make a record, it's kind of like scarification or something. You work 15 hours until you're stupid. You're just kind of all jittery.

I don't get particularly precious about things like this, though. Like the record company said, "We need a radio edit that delivers the hook" - I don't even know what they consider the hook in that song ["Oh No"] - "that delivers the hook sooner." So I'm like, "Okay. I see that." And they were all walking on eggshells, like is this going to be sacrilegious to me or something, to mess with this art I've created? And I'm like, "Great. I get to tinker with it, I get to mess with my song some more."

Songwriting requires some sort of ceremony to even get the process started, and it can be somewhat arbitrary.