It was hard to sing like how I wanted to because playing live I had to just be at the top of my lungs all the time, and it made me sound like I had a really bad cold or something.

Static in my head, the reflected sound of everything, tried to go to where it led, but it didn't lead to anything.

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

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 didnt know how many people knew who Ferdinand was.

While his history of depression is compatible with suicide... and the location and direction of the stab wounds are consistent with self-infliction, several aspects of the circumstances (as they are known at this time) are atypical of suicide and raise the possibility of homicide.

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