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.

I've never been drawn to concert DVDs because they take away the part of the equation that's most important to seeing a live show: getting jostled around and feeling the energy in the room. I definitely didn't want to make one of those.

I haven't been living anywhere because I've been on tour for the past two years.

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

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

I love storms and how the whole house shakes. When I was a kid, there would be lots of thunder and lightning storms, and they would knock the electricity out. We had this oil lantern that had been in my grandfather's homestead at the turn of the century, before there even was electricity. He'd bring it down off the top shelf, and we'd always play cards.

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