I think the best songs are being written by the very under-stated, under-appreciated indie artists. The thing that separates them from mainstream success is they either consciously or unknowingly refuse to deliver on a big chorus.

When life gives you the opportunity to check off a thing on the bucket list, you have to check them.

Crowds respond to anthemic choruses.

I can go write an absolutely saccharine pop record with a really catchy lyric for another artist that could become a hit without meaning anything to me, but that's more the science laboratory, that's the other thing.

The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.

Honest always sells. Always has, always will.

I am not opposed to doing a side project, like Death Cab for Cutie, where it's completely different from my own band.