The way my life’s structured, I don’t stay in a place for more than a couple months.
I’ll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to necessarily convey my own experience as an individual to the world.
I prefer career artists that have spent time honing their craft, as opposed to, ‘I won a karaoke contest on a reality show and now I have a record.’ That’s such a drag. The music that comes out of it is so poor.
There’s all body types, but there’s just one size.
People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over – but I think if you like what a particular band or artist does, then you should want to see what they’re going to do next.
Why are you scared to dream of god when it’s salvation that you want?
I’m always fascinated when people really fervently believe, because I have such a hard time believing anything. When people have real faith in something, it’s fascinating to me. And the fact that so many people, in surveys, so many people say they do. It kind of blows my mind.
My favorite rhymes are sort of half-rhymes where you might just get the vowel sound the same, but it’s not really a true rhyme. That gives you far more flexibility to capture the feeling you’re trying to express. But sometimes it’s best not to have any rhyme.
It’s very strange when people get so focused on what a song means, what actual events inspired a song. That gets people really excited for some reason… But that’s what’s great about music – however people interpret it, whatever they see, is what I want to be there for them.
I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.
One of my best friends, Mike, had a kid. Just seeing him go through it all was inspiring. It would be so nice to care about someone more than yourself. And Mike is a total delinquent, so if he can do it, I figure I can, too.
If you think about the concept of reincarnation, it’s essentially uploading yourself and your spirit into a new form, a new hard drive as it were.
The best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn’t exist before, and now it’s there, and it makes me feel a certain way.
It’s glorious to be able to go onto the Internet and hear any kind of music anywhere, from anywhere, and get it instantly. But there’s also something glorious about having a record with a sleeve and looking at the artwork, putting it on the turntable and playing it, there’s still something romantic to me about that.
I think there’s a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.
I enjoy recording and performing, but it’s the songwriting that I love most.
You can do a lot to shape the feeling of a song by the way you record it.
I’ve given up trying to understand what people think about me. It seems like a lot of people don’t like the music we make and don’t know me, or something.
I always embrace the worst-case scenario.
I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom’s the only reason I know it’s a real thing.
If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we’d see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.
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