I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

I try not get too self-aware when writing lyrics.

While there are so many beautiful Baroque churches and it's a beautiful artistic tradition, it almost gets hideous and grotesque if you push it further. You can take something beautiful and overdo it.

I always find live shows on film kind of boring. Even my favorite ones, I kinda zone out for most of it. It's just so different seeing a band in the flesh and then watching a film of it, even if you have a hundred cameras and it's shot from every angle. There's just a communal, visceral thing that never translates very well.

The film Black Orpheus is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil.

Actual patriotism has to do with loving a place enough to try and improve it.

Music is made by individuals. Some artists will be very politically overt in their songs, some will be more subtle. You have to be true to yourself, true to your nature.