I've never conceptualized much of what I write about. Maybe, once I'm onto something, I'll conceptualize a finished record. I want the songs to tie together and make sense together. I'm not like, "Oh, I want to explore this idea." That's just not how the creative process works for me. It's more like something strikes me, or finds me, and then I wrestle with it after that. I don't sit back in my armchair, like, "What kind of philosophy can I explore today?"

I need some meaning I can memorize. The kind I have always seems to slip my mind.

I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to focus.

You could be happy, the minute you try. Why won't you try? Oh won't you try?

If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.

One by one I drowned all the people I’d been.

Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.