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

There's all these people involved, and it becomes this huge machine - it stops being just me making my own little songs for myself, or for the world. And it's hard to stop the machine. If you want to take time to write a record, they're like, "OK, tour through March, April, and June, then you can take a few weeks off to record in July before getting back on the road for the European festival circuit." After a while, I had to put my foot down.

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'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.

Music journalists are some of the lazy, most uninspired, dull people I've ever met...

Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected.

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.