Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs.

We are buried beneath the weight of information.

Every single song has its own individual character and you can't treat each song the same way, because it wants to be treated differently and there are songs that are like scared birds that you have to sneak up on over the course of months in the woods.

He said, I'm better off without her, until I showed him my tattoo.

Your hands are like dogs, going to the same places they've been. You have to be careful when playing is no longer in the mind but in the fingers, going to happy places. You have to break them of their habits or you don't explore; you only play what is confident and pleasing. I'm learning to break those habits by playing instruments I know absolutely nothing about, like a bassoon or a waterphone.

Well you say that it's gospel, But I know that it's only church.

Let me fall out of the window/ With confetti in my hair