I'm making music for music's sake, and I have an audience I'm proud of.

Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough.

It’s a song about first relationships and letting go. It’s very rare for a relationship to withstand the Earth’s gravitational pull and where it’s going to take people and how they’re going to grow. I’ve heard it said that you can’t really have a true love unless it was a love unrequited. It’s a harsh one, because then your truest one is the one you can’t have forever.

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.

It seems like a necessary balance to life, being part of the community.

I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to say things. I'm a little exhausted by the process.

I'm an example of someone who never made it to university. I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date.