I'm always looking for older equipment and ways of recording, but you can't escape the fact that it's all going to be digitized and reduced.

Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.

Originally, the lyrics to "Girl" were really upbeat, and then it didn't work for me somehow. You need the dichotomy. If you're doing something happy and light, you need the shadows.

I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?

Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.

As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.

Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.