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."

It's this funny thing now: You sign up to be a musician because you want to write music, but you don't spend your time writing music. Instead, you go around the world selling the music you've already made.

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

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.

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

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

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.