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.

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

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.

I liked the idea of a self-contained, endless pursuit of perfection. But I have a problem with perfection. I don't think perfection is very artful. But there's something I liked about the image of a skater going in this endless twisted circle that doesn't have any real endpoint. So the object is not to stop or arrive anywhere; it's just to make this thing as beautiful as they can.

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.

They say that God makes problems just to see what you can stand, before you do as the devil pleases.

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.