For some reason focusing on destruction and mortality is more poetically exciting to me than hope and love.

I've always written songs with a visual counterpart in my mind that no one else can see.

When someone close to you dies, the line is shifted really drastically about what is meaningful and what isn't.

I think that I probably inevitably fetishize nature, although I try not to, because it's kind of embarrassing, repulsive behavior. I think it's just an extension of me being old-fashioned.

I really like looking at other people's book collections when I'm at someone's house. I think it is an amazing cross section of a person's brain and lifestyle. I think everyone should photograph their book spines and make a website. Seriously.

To me, Twitter seems like a way for people to just let the world know about the most mundane bullshit that crosses their mind.

When I sing the songs, there's a color tone and a place, and it's not a place that I remember in reality. It's usually based on a photo that I took - 'cause those photos don't look like the real world. The film distorts them, and the colors get exaggerated.