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

I think I prefer the constant renewal. It's almost like sandpapering down any details or any contour of familiarities.

When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean necessarily in the flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way.

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.

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

A year's a long time, but it also flickers past in no time at all.