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

I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.

It's hard to represent chaos, or like an absence of something. It's much easier to represent the presence of something or a situation.

I watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members

There are lots of things I like about playing in a band, the things I cant do by myself you know.

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

I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience.