I'm used to writing short stories, which is primarily what I like to read.

Music drives me insane, the incessant presence of music in my life. It informs how I see the world; it drives me crazy

I'm not reading any novels right now, though not for lack of trying. Unless they're really good, my attention in most novels tends to sputter out after a hundred pages or so - an awful admission for someone who is trying to write one, but it's true.

I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story that orbits the literal prose must happen in the reader's imagination. Who knows, maybe the dwindling attention spans means a lucrative future for short story writers.

I'm writing songs that connect to millions of people. And that happens for a reason. I don't really worry too much about people who aren't into it because that's the beauty of music. It's subjective. If every single person in the world loved our music, then that'd be weird.

I think the less individuality you portray... not individuality but like the more solidarity you have the better.

I think one of the dangers of humor is becoming seduced by it and sacrificing the story for a few laughs.