It never really interested me in the past but, for the first time, I wanted to make a pop record. I thought a good way of doing it would be to make songs that didn't really make sense to me as songs; songs that I couldn't just sit down and play in front of someone and then get them to play over it.

I'm probably more into a more spacious, even meditative, quiet delivery of singing.

Once you feel like you can safely quit a melody, you are free to explore more important things.

There are too many Destroyer records to just start rattling them left them off, but they're there.

Big, evocative words get thrown around, and people can sing along to passionately as if the lyrics just materialized out of the ether, largely because they don't ever seem to coalesce into a writerly voice.

Most musicians don't write about being a musician cause most musicians aren't writers.

I'm just kind of lazy and messed up and self-managed - self-mismanaged.