There's positive attention and there's negative attention - negative attention is easy, positive attention requires actual hard work.

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

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.

Nobody really wanted to do that one European tour. For one, it was budgeted to lose money. They would've made something, but I would've lost a lot of money.

I'm like part of the Kurt Cobain school of writing lyrics, which is the syntax of the words is more important than... is where it all comes from.

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 don't know if there's anything that would surprise people, because I don't think that anybody knows anything about me at all. There's not much out there. I think I'm going to come out with a pretty dark and troubled record, and it might upset some people.