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.

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.

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 don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination decides it needs to take a nap. maybe that's what it needs to do.

Fights problems with bigger problems.

The devil's script sells you the heart of a blackbird.

Everything means nothing to me