You do have to live through things, and to live through things is to observe want, and to observe lacking. Even if the hunger is a curiosity.

I would not call myself an optimist, even though I would aspire to be. I am innately a skeptic. There's kind of an incessant dissatisfaction that I have, that I'm always trying to either expose or fight against or wrestle with.

We brainstorm an idea and then we do flesh it out a little bit - we come up with a script, mostly to have beats and a sense of a story and a narrative arc. Often when we get into the space and onto the location, that changes and something we discover in the moment becomes the moment, becomes the story, becomes the character.

It's so nice to have a band name you don't have to explain.

The enemy of any artistic statement is to create something that no one cares about, in the sense they have no opinion either way.

I got kind of tired of playing, I think. But I think it will be part of my life again, maybe.

For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved.