If, you know, all your life you're making films or whatever, and somehow along the way you lose meaning in whatever you're doing when you're making t….

I'd rather people interpret the songs and get whatever they can out of them instead of thinking about me crying in a room with a guitar..

If you can't be psyched about your own thoughts, then how are you supposed to have a meaningful interaction with anyone?.

It's a bit of a weird thing to know that (my music) has translated to that many people..

Sometimes I'll hit a note and sometimes I don't. Why not at least try?.

I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's this element of confrontation..

It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool..

Go and experience life the way that someone else might experience it. Maybe you'll find meaning in a different corner of your brain. The fact that it….

It's hard to force a relationship with a stranger even if they happen to be someone you happen to share blood with..

Share yourself with others after you have first spent some time with yourself..

People should know each other because they want to, because they have things in common..

I'm ready to take on different selves and experiment and see what happens..

I've been writing a lot of songs in twos, songs that are like twins in my mind..

You want to create things as purely as possible without allowing the universe to interfere so much that it's manipulating it and making things unreal….

I learned how to be more theatrical and have more fun, and to take a song and sing it over and over again in different ways, and make it different ea….

In high school I was in a band called Goodfight, but it was more me running around on stage. It was very punk inspired. Then I started to get into in….

In a lot of senses, things are definitely changing in my life, and with what's going on around me. But I still feel like the writing process is as in….

I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached to..

You get to a certain age and it really occurs to you: "My mother and my father will not always be here. My spouse or my girlfriend or boyfriend are h….

People are buying more vinyl now than they did in the late '90s or 2000s. I like having different mediums of the record. It's always interesting to s….

I don't know what folk music means anymore, because the meaning of that just keeps changing..