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

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.

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.

People will complain that they don't want to wait around for lightning to strike, but why not? If you invest yourself in chance, the potential for disappointment is pretty low.

I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.

A novel is a performance you have to plan.

As important as politics are to me, the life and the spirit of people's emotions are much more important. People live real lives where they love and grieve and feel pain and joy and that is a whole separate sphere. All that political stuff, I believe in it strongly, but not as strongly as I believe that at some point you or someone is going to need a song to sit with and comfort them in a hard time.