I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships.

I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.

What I do on my solo stuff is just the most natural version of who I am, and I’m trying to represent the feelings that I’m feeling as purely as possible

I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead

But I have been avoiding talking about what I'm doing now because it's frustrating for people to hear about things that aren't available yet.

I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.

I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.