I thought The Doors were the greatest band for a while.

I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.

But we're still rehearsing and planning to make a new album next year. We have some really good new songs that we've already been playing on that last tour that we just finished.

Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody.

It's easy to be negatively funny about personalities in the media. It's just kind of a cheap laugh.

There's probably a certain confidence in your voice, or something, that is validated. You know what I mean? I'm just imagining if people didn't already say that you were cool, that you'd [have] more doubt in what you're doing. That's not so conscious, but that's part of my cosmology now.

Most people want to be seen or heard. You want to shine. That's my way of shining.