It's weird to me to even say, "I wrote this song." I never feel like I wrote it; I feel like I heard it.

I'm always looking to disprove what I think I know for sure. I call that learning.

That's one of the things that always grabbed me about rock music: There's a song, and you know how it goes, and you can sort of predict it, but a lot is left up to chance and interaction.

I'm not unswayed by the opinions of others. I actually really value that, the idea that you can feel things the way somebody else might feel them is a really big part of doing music for me.

It's very heartening to see people who I used to do music with still doing it.

My projects are just side effects of what I obsess over, what I chat about, what random things pop into my head, what I dream at night.

I feel vulnerable when my ego is threatened - if I get jealous of another band's good time slot at a big festival, if I'm about to get clobbered in a political debate, if I'm trying to impress someone I have a crush on. It's the opposite of openness, letting go, allowing deep feelings to express themselves. For me, that comes from playing music and from kissing.