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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.