I learned how to sit on the couch in front of the fire and read a magazine, just for like eight hours a day, every day. It was... crazy.

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

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

A lot of my songs are about death and the fleetingness of life. It just feels good to remind myself about that a lot. For whatever reason. And it's a beautiful thing, actually. It seems to me like it's a beautiful way to live in the world and to relate to things, with an awareness of temporality.

If my music is political in a way, and it might be, it's in the way of generating a sensitivity in people, a deeper awareness of the world around them. That's my goal, at least.

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

Whenever I get a tweet that's trying to promote a thing someone cares about, I'm like, "how annoying!"