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'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.

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 started growing roses. I enjoyed the craft of it and that they're difficult to look after; they can provide joy.

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.

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

You can get into a comfort zone writing lyrics, like wearing a mask. But I wanted to feel uncomfortable when I was listening back to the lyrics; I wanted to squirm.