I think the suggestion that all my songs are personal is insulting because that assumes that I have a bunch of issues that I feel the need to unload on strangers. That is not the case. It also assumes that I just talk about myself the whole time which, again, is not true.

People are so... seem so chaotic internally, but being filtered through some form, like making a record, sort of filters it down into something that can be understood.

I see you're leaving me and taking up with the enemy, the cold comfort of the in-between, a little less than a human being.

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

Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.

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

I've been doing four-track songs by myself since I was like a teenager, where I'd sing in a way that I ... I just didn't think other people would like it, so I didn't play it for them but eventually I got over that, which I'm happy that I did, because it's kind of a drag to be playing a kind of music that you don't really like as much as another kind.