It's interesting to think about the different forms one place can take.

I wanted to lift the aspects of the lyrics and imagery that I found sincerely powerful and touching, plus the amazing musical extremities, and make my own thing. That's what making music has always been for me. Synthesizing a nonexistent kind of music that I wish existed because I wanted to listen to it.

It's interesting to think about the different forms one place can take.

Profound thoughts and profound experiences get revealed to be tricks that we play on ourselves, and poetry gets revealed to be just, like, some dumb words that somebody put in an interesting order.

It's nice to have a band that can adapt to whatever show we're in, so we can play on a big stage or a house show.

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

All things in the world are singing a song, reciting a poem, inaudibly, to their surroundings, to the things they encounter.