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.

I was grateful to be away from all that familiarity, to have a chance to do something anonymously.

Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.

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

Be alone even when there's a million people around, because tomorrow it will be a different million people.

I would try to pick the guitar up sometimes, like, "Hey, remember me?" It was like reintroducing yourself to someone who's got a grudge.

Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.