Certain songs just feel a way that's hard to put into words and it's not happy and it's also not really sad but I couldn't say what it is

People can be chaos but it's hard to fit it into some creative piece that you made. It's hard.

He made his life a lie so he might never have to know anyone.

I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination decides it needs to take a nap. maybe that's what it needs to do.

Everybody gets a tag. If you listen to a Velvet Underground record, you don't think, 'Godfathers of Punk.' You just think, 'This sounds great.' The tags are there in order to help try to sell something by giving it a name that's going to stick in somebody's memory. But it doesn't describe it. So 'depressing' isn't a word I would use to describe my music. But there is some sadness in it -- there has to be, so that the happiness in it will matter.

But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.

I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.