The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind.

Songwriting is reliant on inspiration, which ideally you don't have that much control over. Songs kind of half make themselves, and then you have to finish them.

Whenever you do anything or say anything, you're opening yourself up to criticism. But that's okay.

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.

There's the idea that you have to know how to solve the world's problems in order to feel that something is morally wrong. I'm always back and forth between optimism and depression about the situation.

Years ago, in order to stay sane, I had to really make an effort not to think about how people view us. There's just so much noise, positive and negative, and not much good comes out of thinking about it.

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