What I remove from my writing is linear context. It's not really important to me, because it doesn't give me chills to see, "you flip the latch and the lock opens and then you can open the top of the chest and inside the chest is this." That doesn't give me chills, to think in that vein. So I've always kind of avoided it.

I am not concerned about the 80 BMP consistency law of popular music. I'm concerned with other things, and they're very valid.

The reason I can do what I do on stage is because I couldn't fake it.

I wonder a lot about making things meaningful. You want to do meaningful work and make art, but you're making records, which is good, but you don't want to weight them - it's a very curious thing.

Whether it's just the career path of doing independent music, being an artist, however you want to pigeon-hole it, it creates a certain type of character.

I know what love is because I lost it at an early age.

Being on stage, it's like, "Ooo-kay, now I remember why all this is going wrong or right!" It's very much my element.