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

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

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.

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