I do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds.

I want to be the surgeon who cuts you open Who fixes all of life's mistakes I want to be the house that you were raised in The only place where you feel safe. I wanna be a shower in the morning That wakes you up and makes you clean I know I'm just the weather against your window As you sleep through a winter's dream

Each Desaparecidos's song has a seed that it came from. We're trying to take that and broaden it out and make it resonate with people.

For a sunrise or a sunset, you're manic or you're depressed. Will you ever feel ok?

When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that's what you're going to do.

One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly.

The sound of loneliness makes me happier.