Part of me likes words as music sabotage, and part of me wonders why anyone would waste their time liking anything to do with sabotage.

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

I can't fool myself into thinking that musically I don't need other people, whether it's as a foil or just to come in and make real the ideas that are kind of vague and wispy in my head.

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

When I'm on stage I don't say anything. The last thing I want to do is share my thoughts. I don't know if that's mysterious - maybe it's just old fashioned.

I'm not that conscious of my writing, so pacing the lyrics doesn't really enter the picture.

I was a member of the band when it was just, like, a conversation at a bar. Then we constantly practiced, we played shows, we tooled around in the studio. And then, when I moved and kind of bailed on that, is when... So, yeah, for the first, 'Mass Romantic,' I was heavily involved. Then, for a couple records after that, I was not really involved at all.