I was in a crazy, private, awesome bubble again, and that's when I started to write.

There's something about live recordings now that's too hi-fi.

I guess there are a lot of people out there that think they're supposed to define themselves in isolation, but that's not necessarily the case.

Because there's just so much in a day now, I keep writing in much more abstract terms, like I don't try to write about what happened anymore. It would be impossible.

Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.

Probably, on some subconscious level, I was motivated by not wanting to spoon-feed any similar flavors.

I find it pretty fascinating how humans keep gravitating towards these giant centers. I went to this walled medieval village in France this year, and it was truly the most crazy, beautiful, bizarre place I've ever been.