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

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.

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

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.

Of course, no lyrics are ever unintentional, but I think bands like Wolf Parade and the Arcade Fire have a tendency to touch on big themes without really following through on them or tying them in to a particular logic.

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

The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.