If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal.

You're my North Star when I'm lost and feeling blue.

You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.

There's truths there that spiral out of what appears to be just a word game. That's what I find mystifying about the meanings of things: they kind of unscrew themselves from the practical words.

The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.

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