We’re trying to be faithful but we’re cheating, cheating, cheating

When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.

You are always growing, so maybe the way that you bring the songs forward and translate them is more mature.

Sometimes I make stuff, and even I don't like it. There's something about it that I don't really like, or annoys me. For whatever reason it needs to come out.

I also don't like to make really big records, because I feel then that the songs don't get enough space to be themselves, so I would never want to make a record that's like seventeen songs.

I started to write before I went to SUNY Purchase music conservatory. As an audition I submitted what I now think are really awful songs, but I guess they saw something in them.

I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka.