Berlin is just an affordable European city that's supposed to be cool. There's nothing too deep about it.

Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.

So much of rock lyrics is just a mirror of real feeling. It doesn't feel dangerous to me. They just feel like "rock lyrics."

When you do a cover it's a way to get attention clicking on something. At the Quiet Music Festival, The Jicks did this Nirvana song, very unrehearsed and not important, but then all the websites were like, "They covered Nirvana!" People like covers of famous people.

I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.

Family is the best. I can honestly say, it's a gift that is beyond making art. I didn't know that when I got into it.

The narrative songs were well-written, like an article in The New Yorker. They're nice and pat. They're more like I'm just showing I can do that when I write a song like that. It's not my true calling.