I think every time I play, every show is different, and I think that at a certain point a song isn't about you anymore. It's about the audience, it's….

All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is no different..

I'm first and foremost a guitar player. I've been playing since I was 12, which is over half of my life. I like the physicality of it; you can strang….

I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time..

I got offstage and was just looking at my hands, and they were shaking. I was like, 'I wanna kill someone! What's happening?'.

CDs are usually an hour long because that's the amount a CD could hold - not because that's the optimal amount of time for any given musical expressi….

I'd listen to things that felt really good in the moment and realize they were clouded by enthusiasm or caffeine. And things that I was struggling to….

The most important thing is setting up these directives for yourself. Like, "I'm only going to use these three colors - go!" That's why Einstein wore….

With the first kid, you micromanage it, making sure there's no hair out of place when it goes off to school. But by the third kid, it's more like, "O….

I think cults are probably a little less scary. To me, it's scarier that 25 people would wear robes and jump up and down and try to convert everyone ….

I have the weirdest job. It's not every day that you get to stand up onstage and unload every ounce of your misanthropic bile onto a crowd of people,….

I had brief glimpses of emotional catharsis while writing. I remember reading something Philip Roth wrote about how he writes every single day, but i….

An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It's not the full spectrum. It's never going to sound as good as a record..

Everybody's got a dark side, but mine doesn't include being around people who are mean..

The schematics are a little bit tricky, but once you get it down you're able to really program an entire show. Every song has a lot of different guit….

Every part of every song can have a totally different musical sound, because otherwise if I wanted to go from a verse of one song to the chorus of an….

I wanted to give the songs a run for their money, to see if they stood on their own without a lot of accoutrements. It made more sense - and it was e….

Music is kind of a strange business, and it's too weird of a job to have mean, conniving people around..

I think anything that you can't poke fun at is a little too precious..

What I did with my first records was, my writing process was that I didn't touch any instruments to write it, so I was making it all on the computer,….

I don't even wanna say female guitar-players, just guitar-players, because music of all things doesn't need to be gendered and stratified, that's so ….