It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning

Certain songs just feel a way that's hard to put into words and it's not happy and it's also not really sad but I couldn't say what it is

You can't get better at things you never play.

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.

But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.

I went walking around the city some more, people watching with a cold, blank stare. And I saw your face in everyone, I swear.

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.