A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun.

I start writing, pull whatever images happen to occur to me and make up a story, instead of starting with details that are real and I know of and going from there.

What's scary is the unknown, the stuff you can't put your finger on.

I couldn't name more than a couple of good drum'n'bass acts, and I have no idea what's big in the dance world right now.

I do have a romantic interest in outlasting everybody else. There's a sort of sad machismo to singer-songwriters, I think.

It's a cliché to state that one should think like a child, but it's clear that kids know something that the world tries to make you unlearn later in life.