I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.

Let us love God my brothers, let us love God. But let it be with the strength of our arms and the sweat of our brow.

Leaden trumpets spit the soot of power they say"I'm on your side when nobody is, cause nobody is.Come sit right here and sleep while I slip poison in your ear

I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.

I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

I think in some ways, it can do a listener a disservice to explain a song. I think I'd rather leave a little room for people to put themselves in it.