I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to music and take lots and lots of walks. Nature is a nice reset button for me, it's how I get a lot of thinking done.

I'm really drawn to the uncompromising realness of natural process: It's unadorned. It's not very pretty.

I'm kind of a hermit. it's almost easier for me to write about connection than to actually connect.

People are wearing fleece, which is a hard fabric to be angry in.

Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.

You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was the way out of loneliness.

From a self-conscious standpoint, it's hard to see myself on a screen in a way that isn't just me playing music or doing something silly.