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.

A record is worth 10,000 live shows.

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."

The music starts as being way separate from the lyrics, and I write - I have notebooks that I fill with drawings and just words, and stuff that I've written.

I spent my life working before I started band. I worked construction, landscaping. I worked in kitchens, cleaned dishes. I worked demolition.

It's not like I had a breakdown, though it kind of felt like it at the time. I agreed to everything that happened. You can't really be at work and be like, "That's it. I've had too much. I'm going home."

Three years between records is longer than average. Double albums are much more of a statement. I really wanted to put myself out there as much as I possibly could.