Sometimes I'll go out to say hi to people, and I'm just not ready for it. It feels too weird, too intense.

Traveling is amazing. You meet so many great, positive people. You get to see new faces all the time. I don't think that loneliness, it's not like you have no one in your life. Well, I'd say it's like . . . you can have everyone you need in your life and still be lonely. Everyone knows that. Being on the road is complicated and shitty; it's also really, really rad.

I'm cool with being the sad guy, but I don't want to be the guy who nobody wants around because he's so miserable.

I feel like real thoughts and emotions involve the whole being. And they also outstrip little personal quirks, and they outstrip biography. You end up on a really special, universal, shared terrain in those experiences. I think it's available to absolutely every single thing made of flesh and blood.

The songs are all indexes of a time in the past when I was writing them.

Sometimes I'll go out to say hi to people, and I'm just not ready for it. It feels too weird, too intense.

That's another thing in Alice Munro: it's always, like, some middle-aged woman who is going to cheat on her husband, and there's that moment where she decides to take an extreme risk. It's always after an extreme risk where life really happens for Alice Munro.