There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.

When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on.

I just started writing stuff to kill time on summer evenings. This is why I'm always telling people who ask me what they need to do to succeed to give up, do something else.

I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much.

The process of touring is always so weird to me. Once you've made the album, that's over, you move along.

I grew up in Southern California, so the whole concept of a local music history is still kinda novel to me.

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