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

I certainly didn't predict people who spent years actively disliking the band to all of a sudden like the band. That's pretty funny to me, and it makes playing live kind of interesting, 'cos we're doing lots of things that don't really have a lot to do with that record, and even presenting the songs off that record in a way that's a little more muscular and without as much of the sheen, which is what I think part of what people really liked [about Kaputt].

I force myself to care about the music end by wrestling with it for years.

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

Generally, if you could picture a bunch of rock and roll momentum behind a song and it was particularly melodious, maybe the Pornographers would do it. If it was kind of moody and more lyrical, then maybe it would be a Destroyer song. Anything that's really lyrically driven I would keep for Destroyer.

I always start with the lyrics, because starting with the music means the words will be bad.

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