It's not hard to connect with the music on an emotional level and get inside the songs. It's odd, very vulnerable, and slightly embarrassing to be standing and singing and playing music in front of a bunch of strangers.

I drink wine on stage to sort of loosen my grip on reality a little.

A person with grace is somebody who's socially graceful or is a classy person, but sometimes you just feel the opposite of that, and you just feel like a jerk and a loser and a weirdo.

It takes us a long time to write a song that we all really like, so it makes sense that it would take a while for the listener to get there, too.

Lyrics need to be good, but they don't need to be obvious right away.

Somehow, you realize you can kind of do anything in music. You don't have to be good at a certain thing; you can just do whatever you want.

The last thing you want to do is write songs about being in a band.