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.

Nothing's gonna drag me down to a death that's not worth cheating.

I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something.

I went walking around the city some more, people watching with a cold, blank stare. And I saw your face in everyone, I swear.

I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?

A lot of people are kind of depressed. I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not.

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.