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

Everything becomes closer once you realize that the world is only as far away as a nap and a meal.

You just never set roots; you take pleasure in simple conversations, because you know you're not going to have much more than that. It's very isolating, and that can be a good thing.

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

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

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