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.

What I wanted was just to make music, and so, originally I just wanted to hide behind the album cover of the last record, and I wanted it to be almost anonymous.

When I read about myself and how writers have focused on negative stuff, it hurts my feelings.

A record is worth 10,000 live shows.

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

I went with Beach Fossils and we played 40 shows because we wanted people to see us.

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.