[Dennis] Etchison would write stories that were just punch lines at the end. You wouldn't realize something horrific was happening until the last paragraph.

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.

It's a cliché to state that one should think like a child, but it's clear that kids know something that the world tries to make you unlearn later in life.

Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something. I believe in mental health care, but when we call people "crazy," we exclude them from our circle.

I do have a romantic interest in outlasting everybody else. There's a sort of sad machismo to singer-songwriters, I think.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

I crave music that'll sort of hurtle me into space and release me up there.