Things have changed. The suburbs are developed, but other parts, like where we recorded Spirit and Danse Manatee are still woodland and farmland.

We're all living in different states and we all have different systems within those states. Even on the most basic personal level, it affects me.

I definitely don't want to play by myself. I don't relate to playing music that way. I like interacting with people.

There's something scary about the unknown. And maybe the scariest movies couldn't ever be made because they are too deep in somebody's head, too unknown to get out.

People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.

I always thought it was important for my lyrics to come from a really honest place.

I'm not against being proud of where you come from but I feel like sometimes the divisions are a little too bold and it hurts us more than it helps us.