I've always wanted to be thrown into the ocean when I die - to be rowed out to sea and thrown overboard into the Atlantic.

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.

I think the consistency comes from the parts.

You might not be riding high on a great show for as long because you didn't have people to share the joy with.

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.

I've always been fascinated by flight and the freeness of birds.

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.