And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves, and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.

An artist in 2014 who is thinking about album sales is either sadly deluded or has to make so many commercial compromises that it sort of takes the joy out of making music.

My goal is to make one-not a hodgepodge, but just the sort of record that I would want to listen to.

I don't think too much about how it might exist in the world in a commercial sense - I more just try and focus on making music that I love and trying to put it out into the world.

That softness around your eyes, a softness in your face. Almost the way you feel when you’re about to start crying. That, to me, is love. It can be romantic love, it can be friendship love, it can be family love, it can be love for a chipmunk. It can be love for anything.

I don't want to get too nuanced, but we have the electoral college in the United States and that means we don't have direct democracy.

You could spend every waking moment online and still only experience one-trillionth of what's out there. I find that a little overwhelming.