When I write a song, I see a tunnel, and then the chorus is an open space, or the bassline is doing this shape. I see songs as a more of a geometric, spacial experience.

I miss you, but I haven't met you yet!

In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student... I was always complaining that music education was too academic.

As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.

But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.

I’ve been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.

Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.