It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually.

I don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place.

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

Theres a bunch of Elvis Costello records that made all the difference between feeling like a total freak and feeling like ... only a freak. A freak among other freaks

There's lots of ways people can be dependent, on another person, or drugs.

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.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record