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

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

Music was my friend when I was a teenager, and I would inhabit and take comfort in lyrics. That's how I want to write.

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.

If you can express something in the simplest way possible, I think there's something noble in that. It's easy to flesh stuff out and get all purple with it, being cryptic and wearing masks... I think it's a bit adolescent. I wanted to write in a way that was vulnerable. I wanted to have courage in stripping back the opaque stuff so it was just raw. I like lyrics that are a lifeline, that have a purpose to them and are not just meandering around in a masturbatory way. They cut the page.

I'm just worn down and weary of bands whose lyrics are cryptic and self-referential.