The great thing about art on any level is that it can speak to all people if it's achieved properly.

50 Words of Snow just didn't seem to have the complications that quite a lot of albums have. It felt to me like it had this very good flow of energy.

The whole positioning and atmosphere of the song ["King of the Mountain"] was to build up this thunderstorm that would take us all onstage off into a story where we were suddenly in the middle of the ocean.

The great thing about art on any level is that it can speak to all people if it's achieved properly.

What made it special made it dangerous, so I bury it... and forget.

I suppose my biggest concern would be if the planet is going to be in good enough shape for the next generation to have the privileges that we've had.

Maybe if my songs feel personal, that's very nice. I like that. I take that as a great compliment.