Instead of just looking back, whiplash-style, I can assume there's something else coming. Time just folds over itself, like origami.

When I'm in a city that's just clean, concrete lines, I get really short of breath and confused. It's much more interesting to me when nature is creeping back and tearing the mortar apart between the bricks.

I wrote the album [Metals] in the fall. In about four months, I went from zero to finished. It usually takes forever.

If you calculate every single thing you could possibly need in your life, you would need no more than 200 people to keep all that afloat: a doctor, food, wine, cheese-eating friends, the person who makes paper, the shoemaker.

Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated from your own life - inside your own life, it doesnt feel familiar any more.

I'm a nostalgic person and I really like rehashing and digging around the mental trunks.

There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.