The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.

Everyone wants to pretend like they sprang out of the ground with an Animal Collective record in their hands and a David Bowie haircut, and that's just not the case. You discover these things gradually.

When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.

I always think about opportunity and how you regret the things you don't do.

All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.

Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.