I'm just a sucker for new-agey synth sounds and instrumentation. I wasn't really thinking of soft rock, but I know that kind of quiet-storm format uses a lot of these sounds.

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

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

Moments of unexpected sweetness happen when romance enters, which always happens in songs - if just for a split second.

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

Even though people like to say Destroyer [albom] is gibberish and all that, I usually know exactly what I'm saying at every single moment.

I don't really know what's going on with the Pornographers - everyone's kind of doing their own stuff. I mean, they play shows here or there.