Songs are puzzles - you get an intro, or maybe an end, but you gotta fill in the rest. Sometimes they come easy and sometimes they're a pain in the ass.

We're all human and life is complicated.

Demos are something you do in the early stages of your career, but when you get going, you just go in and record the song.

Trying to cope with the balance between home life and road life has been a theme in my music since early Red House Painters records.

When you get older, you're bothered, or inspired, by other things in life than a girl breaking up with you. Things get heavier as you get older.

Throughout my life, there's just periods when I write and periods when I don't. I don't feel like anything's really blocked. "Writer's block" sounds so dramatic and worrisome, and I don't worry about it. I know deep down that I'm a writer, and it's just a matter of time until it comes back, and when it does, it'll be good like it's always been.

I'm always moving forward creatively and don't like stalling, trying to find the perfect snare drum sound.