I could hunker down by myself and listen closely to mixes, but then to be able to have a sounding board of peers to get advice and feedback.

I really am planning on living to be 100. People ask, "Why are you so depressed?" I'm actually a very happy person.

It's not a morbid thing, but I think I've never been afraid of death, which is maybe why I love writing about it.

Performing alone - it's a very solitary experience. When you're in a band, when something amazing happens on stage you can look at each other, "Yeah! we're so locked in." Or if something goes wrong, you can look at each other and shrug and say, "Oops." If you're doing it by yourself, you reflect on it in a completely different way.

Maybe when I die and I'm thrown overboard, I'll turn into a mermaid.

Same if you had a bad show, it just rolls off you more easily.

The songs came from a more solitary place and I hadn't played them with many people before recording. So I just added the layers of people who are in my life, and built up the songs.