I know more than I knew before I didn't rest I didn't stop Did we fight or did we talk.

I love storms and how the whole house shakes. When I was a kid, there would be lots of thunder and lightning storms, and they would knock the electricity out. We had this oil lantern that had been in my grandfather's homestead at the turn of the century, before there even was electricity. He'd bring it down off the top shelf, and we'd always play cards.

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

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

All the girls who have photos of them at parties, like, "Woo!" - that's what someone's going to see of their grandma.

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

Any kind of anthemic song, for the most part, they're on the positive side of things. It's not hard to identify when a melody is just one degree too complicated or one degree too simple and where that line of pop memorability lies.