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.

There are lots of things I like about playing in a band, the things I cant do by myself you know.

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.

All your secret wishes could right now be coming true.

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.

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

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.