I just had a really crappy time in school and I spent a lot of time writing songs and not doing work. I started talking to Noah - Panda Bear - about ….

Around the time I dropped out of college, I decided to start taking what I liked about short stories and apply it to writing songs - to make these th….

I'm not against being proud of where you come from but I feel like sometimes the divisions are a little too bold and it hurts us more than it helps u….

I think we stumbled onto our own sort of lore back in high school. We weren't with the drinkers, we were more the psychedelic warriors. We sat around….

I definitely didn't have a lot of money. I had been fired from a record store. I was just trying to get by. I was on unemployment. I didn't have anyt….

I didn't really know why I wanted to go to college. I didn't really have a reason to go there other than the fact that everybody else was doing it..

We're all living in different states and we all have different systems within those states. Even on the most basic personal level, it affects me..

There's something scary about the unknown. And maybe the scariest movies couldn't ever be made because they are too deep in somebody's head, too unkn….

Sometimes I have the idea right away, like, "Oh, this is what this song's about. This is how I'm feeling.".

I definitely don't want to play by myself. I don't relate to playing music that way. I like interacting with people..

It's too bad music can't be like movies. For me, playing music and listening to music and creating music is very environmental. It creates a certain ….

I always thought it was important for my lyrics to come from a really honest place..

Hell is a swamp, to me - not as something fiery, but as something dank, moist, and wet..

It's not so much a philosophy as much as it is a pace. We need to be personally involved with every aspect of the records including the artwork, we w….

Music can be so manipulating - especially in terms of horror. It's such an important part of building the tension..

People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets..

Things have changed. The suburbs are developed, but other parts, like where we recorded Spirit and Danse Manatee are still woodland and farmland..

I love electronic music as much as I love something that sounds like 'Pullhair Rubeye,' or something a little bit more organic than that..

The melody and the structure of a song always comes first for me, so the emotions behind it can sometimes be a challenge: What am I feeling about thi….

I think it's cool to give people encouragement..

It's weird, in New York, it's like the big theme of everything is folk music and interacting with people. Maryland is where the landscape of our musi….