I don't want to take photographs that I won't recognize as myself, and myself isn't necessarily just blankly staring at the lens.

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

There's nothing better than not knowing what's going to happen until you put the pieces together.

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.

Because there's just so much in a day now, I keep writing in much more abstract terms, like I don't try to write about what happened anymore. It would be impossible.

I had to let myself imagine a calendar with no lines; when every single day is being predetermined six months in advance, there's no more fluidity to time.