And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.

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

I like being swept up in weather and observing it as something beautiful and giant.

If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.

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

I was in a crazy, private, awesome bubble again, and that's when I started to write.

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.