I have always thought it was important to maintain some connection for myself to what it takes to make a song work by myself, to put a song across to an audience by myself.

I still have a lot of faith that there's very few people who are savvy enough to actually produce a good sounding copy of the record.

We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.

Everything alive must die. Every building built to the sky will fall. Don't try to tell me my everlasting love is a lie.

I don't really feel like you're making a record unless you pay attention to it.

I think there's a curiosity that can make you feel anxious as to what the world's going to make of what you're doing. It's not necessarily what you're going to get back in terms of record reviews or how people talk about your record, it's getting on the road and playing the new songs live.

I'm very, very suspicious of anybody that finds a belief system that they feel can explain it all, for themselves or for anybody else.