I always end up working with people that do a really good job, so I'm the only one that I'm worried about disappointing me, not the musicians ever.

I don't think it's important for everyone necessarily, and I totally respect that because everyone writes differently.

There are things about the production I'm not crazy about though. People mix records to be heard in cars and to have the bass incredibly loud so the vocals have to fight with everything so there's no dynamic left, and that's kind of a bummer. That may not be my taste but I'm not going to go, "Kanye's not very good," because he's pretty badass. It's a difference in taste, like the New Pornographers and myself have different taste in production as well but it all works out in the end.

I try to think of the songs as little movies. They're always pretty visual to me. I can always sort of see them. I don't always know what the end result is going to be, and I don't know exactly what it's going to sound like, but I can kinda see them.

I just really dig feeling subservient to nature. It brings me a peace and calm, kind of like a Faustian thing, I think...

It's like sometimes, you can just lay back and it takes the pressure off of you.

A live show is one of the last holdouts of a thing that makes you feel a part of a community, where you'll go and maybe meet your future wife or boyfriend, or you're taking your sister to her first show. These are the things that you remember later in your life.