I think The Sunset Tree is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.

Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.

I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.

There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that.

I know it's a cliché to say I write for myself, but I write for myself.

It's an important moment as a reader, I think, when you can forget the question of whether you need to know what happened. Some people really want hard explanations. I'm the other way. I like mysteries. I don't want to frustrate people. I don't want people to feel like they got no answers, but I want to approach the mystery and sit with it.

Labor for a lot of people has a negative connotation. But not for me. I always want to be working.