Thank god we don't know a lot about William Shakespeare or Moses or Homer or Lautréamont. These are the best guys we got, and their art is powerful because they're mysterious. Once biographical information contaminates your consciousness, it's impossible to erase it and look at someone's work the same way again.

I think I try to do a lot of things to weed out casual fans.

Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.

This is a transitory world, we're all spirits just looking for love and finding it, and holding on. Even if it's a moment it's true love, true love doesn't mean that it goes on for eternity. Eternity is a terrible concept.

I don't really write for an album. I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me. It's all a complete accident.

I'm making music with my friends. It's fun. It should be fun. You shouldn't make music if it isn't fun.

I miss working. It's real, you know? But I don't know anything but songwriting, and I don't even know that. I didn't go to school; the only thing I know how to do is this. The only thing that I know is that I know nothing.