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.

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.

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.

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

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

I spent some time in France, visited Egypt and Mexico City. I hung out, biked around, planted some tomatoes. I did everything except wake up in a new town everyday. It was really boring. It's just life.