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

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

I'm the wrong kind of person to be really big and famous.

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.

People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it'd be hard for them to be convincing.

So if somebody writes a song that appears to have some meaning then everybody thinks that it's a really heavy song.

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.