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.

I think it's a misconception that metal's about anger, obviously.

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

You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.

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

I am a person of high energy. That, and I sit down and I write when I get an idea - I put other things aside.

Every place on earth has a frequency. It's not good or bad, it's just the way it is, and if you can attune yourself to that frequency, then you can find comfort in that.