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.

When I was kid, they always used to tell me to keep notebooks. I look at my shelves now and it's just nothing but notebooks. And if I haven't gotten an idea but I have time to work, I'll pull one out and I bet there will be five or six sentences that will kick me off.

Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to.

North Carolina was on the vanguard of being for [ trans rights ], and that's why we're seeing this push back. The conservatives noticed that there had been a lot of progress and they tried to tamp it down.

There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.

My son, who sees me almost every day of his life, will look at me and go, "I know that dude! I like that dude!" It's incredibly affirming.

There are real teachers out there; I don't pretend to have their mantle.