I make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for experimental novels, I might really be onto something.

Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.

People say friends don't destroy one another. What do they know about friends?

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.

If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of them.

I'm finding things out about myself as a person - as a writer - as I write, and so are the people who listen to what I do. But they have this additional aspect of how they take the stuff that I do, and so it broadens the work and it creates this strange connection. It's really a way of strangers communicating through this third thing, which is a body of work. But really, I know it's a cliché to say I write for myself, but I write for myself.

I suspect by the time the Beatles were writing the White Album, they didn't go, "'I Wanna Hold Your Hand!' I wanna play that!" It's like if somebody asked you to put on the clothes you wore in high school. Well, no. No!