If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.

I said I'd stop for a year, which was inconceivable to me and everyone around me. It seemed like so long. But then, after that year, I looked up and I still hadn't gotten my land legs back at all.

Gatekeeper was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I havent written many like that.

I like being swept up in weather and observing it as something beautiful and giant. It makes you feel so minute. The only thing as big as that are your thoughts about it, which can expand exponentially while your physical self is just trapped. It's a pretty awesome feeling, in the original sense of the word.

I was grateful to be away from all that familiarity, to have a chance to do something anonymously.

There are certain parts of chords that resolve things and tie a bow, and others that keep things open and unanswered.

I like being swept up in weather and observing it as something beautiful and giant.