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.

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.

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.

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.

I never want to listen to the songs in front of people close to me. There's an emotional honesty in that place where it's not earnest but it's vulnerable.