There are just some things that you can't deny.

Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected.

The touring band is DIIV, and the songs are always written with them in mind. But the new record is going to be more "me."

One of the 12 steps is to admit that you're powerless, but I think that's bullshit. I think it's important to empower yourself by facing the stuff that triggers you.

There are a million things out there every single day that trigger me - songs, smells, even the season that we're in, fall. Something about the air.

Somebody who knows all about how to make the record, or how to make records, they know how to work the EQ and they know how to work the stuff, but they don't know what I want it to sound like. So it's just easier for me to do it myself.

There are just some things that you can't deny.