Music is an opportunity to say every single thing that you want to say. People will pore over whatever you say and however you say it and, for me, it represents complete freedom of speech.

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."

I guess I do feel the need to repent. I do feel like I owe the world a great album. I don't know why I feel that way. I just do.

I don't think fear necessarily is a core human emotion, but I do think fear of death is something that is at the core of every person's existence.

Music journalists are some of the lazy, most uninspired, dull people I've ever met...

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

In terms of being a kind of popular artist figure and knowing how isolating that is, and knowing what it feels like to be skeptical of people, and to be taken advantage of, especially by your friends. That's a hard to pill to swallow, and we've been through that together, or watched each other go through it. It helps to have somebody that close to you who can relate. I can say with some confidence that I feel like Sky saved my life.