I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing.

By the time you finish touring the record, everything that's exciting to me is what's ahead of me. I want to write the next paragraph.

I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing.

I'm definitely preoccupied by thinking I'm just a biological thing. I want to feel that there's more, but so often I'm reminded of how we're just like baboons, basically.

I'm appalled by the tendency of some rock records to perfect everything to the point where it sounds like Botox and polish it so heavily that there's no humanity left in it.

When you're making an album with people who made your favorite records as a rebellious teenager, it feels like you've achieved something.

I like simple writing. I'd rather read Hemingway than Burroughs.