All records are riddles, and whatever you may want people to think it's about, it may just be throwing them off. And you don't want it to get in the way of what someone else's understanding is. It's not really about anything. At the same time, it will find some meaning.

I like writing melody without an instrument. It's just so - it's more like the choreography of a bee; you just go.

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

On my gravestone, I want it to say, "I told you I was sick."

It's cold out there, colder than a ticket taker's smile at the Ivar Theatre on a Saturday night.

I'll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.

It's rather mystifying when you think about writing songs - where they come from, and how they're born.