[My House By The Water] is a nice instrumental track. The sound of the water is from the same place where the front photo was taken. I live really close to the airport, so there's also planes going over. It's kind of to remind me of living in there, because I'm not gonna be living in there for very much longer.

Connan Mockasin from New Zealand. I met him a little while ago, I love his music.

My music is kind of laid back, it doesn't have super crispy, shiny production, and I'm not singing my heart out or whatever. But that whole idea of blogs declaring: "this is the new denomination for this sound" is ridiculous to me.

I like a lot of west coast stuff like Aerial Pink.

I'm not really good at writing sad sappy ballads. In terms of the lyrics not matching the vibe of the music, that's kind of the way my career has gone; everyone is a little confused about it all the time.

I take making music seriously, but you have to have a sense of humor about yourself. I invite people into my life. That's how I do it.

It was weird [touring with them]. It felt more like we were playing for Phoenix. They asked us because they're fans of what we do.