I consider myself a lyricist first and foremost, but if you get something else out of what I do, that's fine too. I'm not sitting back here telling people how they have to take my stuff. We just want to play music, and hope that people like it.

It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.

I don't really have any position to complain about my job. Yeah, every job has its moments like, "Ah, you know, it's Wednesday." But I'm blessed. I love my work.

I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.

I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young, and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else.

I still get really excited looking at stuff that I've seen every day for 20 years.

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