I want to keep making records as long as I can and that's the beginning and end of my concern about selling records.

I don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place.

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 don’t think it’s important who I am. I really like playing music, but I don’t really want to be anything in particular.

Music is worth doing just because. It doesn’t have to be justified by some political point of view, and it’s kind of insulting to the music to make it a tool for something else.

I didn't have a hard time making it. I had a hard time letting it go.

Fights problems with bigger problems.