All I'm trying to do is make music that people like and that makes people happy.

For me, it's always been important to have the live band be one thing, and the recorded band be kind of another thing.

There's a lot of stuff that I've been through in my life in the past couple of months that I don't really want to share with people who are close to me, but I have no option if it's my art.

We were a commodity used by corporations to make their brand look fashionable, but then they used us to keep kids out of venues.

The idea is: You played to 100 people this week in Europe, and then next week you can play to 200. It's an investment in that territory. But it can lose money because it's very expensive to go to Europe. You can't really just say, like, "Oh, we're gonna take our van and drive to California tomorrow." It's more like, "Oh, we have to fly to London and rent three guitar amps, a bass amp, drums; buy all these flights for four people; hire a driver."

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.

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."