I like to connect with people through my work. That's my favorite way - meetings of the minds, fans at a show. Those are nice mediated ways of hanging out.

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

I don't think I would live outside of the Northwest. I think the quality of life in Portland is really good. People move from intense, high-powered jobs, and move to Portland, work half as much and live twice as good.

I have to erase my Google search histories, because they always lead to an obituary.

I need a template of a template

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 think, for some artists, the fear of taking on a political identity stems from not wanting to be pigeonholed as political actor or a political musician. It becomes this thing where somehow your art can no longer exist on its own and be multifaceted.