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

I definitely didn't have a lot of money. I had been fired from a record store. I was just trying to get by. I was on unemployment. I didn't have anything going full-time.

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.

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

Sometimes I have the idea right away, like, "Oh, this is what this song's about. This is how I'm feeling."

I just had a really crappy time in school and I spent a lot of time writing songs and not doing work. I started talking to Noah - Panda Bear - about recording a really solid album, spending a lot of time on it to get it to sound exactly the way we wanted it to.

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.