Everyone is broken-hearted except for the drastically unimaginative

That's for non-musicians to say: "I only listen to this or that type of music." I think musicians love all music, or at least that's my case.

I never wanted to start a band to sound like Nirvana.

I perceive everything to be constantly subjective and strange. My version of truth in what I express, it feels like that opaque quality that you're talking about. It's just me being legitimate.

I don't really get a lot of clarity in my everyday life and my interactions with people. Most things that happen to me aren't very straightforward. They're either vastly confusing, or I realize that I'm inventing whatever meaning I'm deriving from whatever happens and it's filtering through my own indulgent perspective.

Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him.

When I say I had a cosmic confidence that we were capable of writing good music, I'm speaking about that time when we met Sam [Fogarino]. Greg [ex-drummer] is actually a really great drummer and a great guy. I never want to sound like I am belittling his contributions in the early days, but when Sam joined, there was an immediacy of, like, "Here we go."