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

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

I've always been a bit wary of keyboards because there's an invisibility to it - you're not really hitting anything.

I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and I magnetize over to the green spots.

Now, there's just so much imagery. Imagine what our grandkids are going to be able to see of us?

I like being swept up in weather and observing it as something beautiful and giant. It makes you feel so minute. The only thing as big as that are your thoughts about it, which can expand exponentially while your physical self is just trapped. It's a pretty awesome feeling, in the original sense of the word.

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.