Once you do have a child you want to talk about every detail of it. And it is really boring to all your friends and it should be.

I focus on the words and then I have fun putting together the music after.

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.

When you realize that the baby's healthy and born, it's a release and you're so happy.

A different drumbeat or some vocal overdub could completely transform the song.

Weirdly, I was still trying to be the older brother, and trying to get him [Tom Berninger] to try to be more like me a little bit. Or not be more like me but... I was frustrated that he sometimes let things stop him in his life, and he let the wind get knocked out of his sails a few times.

I usually always think of characters and sometimes the characters are a little bit invented, so it's nice to give these invented, blurry, personas an actually name. It makes me get closer to them or something like that. But they're not all real, they're weird amalgamations of reality.