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

I don't think the emotional quality is the defining quality of the music but it's definitely something that people have picked up on a lot

I think when you've been in a band for a really long time, sometimes you don't appreciate what's good about yourself. It's easy to play something and get too focused on some small detail. It's helpful to have somebody around who can say, "No, that was good." Just so you don't get too lost or forget what you do. You need somebody you really trust who has great taste.

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.

Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals.

What I miss [about church] is being forced to be in community with people that aren't the same as me.