I was definitely inspired by gospel music, or old-school R&B; I got into some Good God gospel compilations.

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

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'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 was definitely inspired by gospel music, or old-school R&B; I got into some Good God gospel compilations.

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 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.