You have to be a really talented writer if you're trying to encapsulate a news story with a song and have it live after the event. I don't have the f….

I feel like now if you're going to start a band you have to have an Instagram full of yourself looking a certain way, lined up like five dudes in mug….

I like the model of people getting together to make something when they want to do it and not being dictated to by a cycle..

Most of the bands that I really like no longer exist. That might just be because I'm in my thirties or whatever. But I also think it's the rare band ….

A lot of people have reunion things, but I think bands are supposed to break up..

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side..

I was born in St. Louis and lived in Pittsburgh for a bit, before my family moved to Nigeria, where they're from. We lived there for three or four ye….

I think that music and art and film, at their best, can connect with something that is eternal in human beings, that might not have so many labels on….

There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you're doing starts to get attention or people start to talk about it. They can just kind of real….

I don't want my reasons to be informed by what people think about what I'm doing..

I feel like people just let each other live a little more in New York..

Ten years is a pretty good run for anything..

I know that being upset without having an avenue to fix anything is a real hard place to be in for too long. But it's even worse thinking that it'll ….

There are people who kind of let you know that you can silence the room..

You can physically move yourself around but there's that great line that Adam wrote: "Does it define for life, like print of thumb?" I think it does..

There was something in me, even leaving fifth grade, that hit me and said, "I have to get out of here. I don't know where, and I don't know what else….

Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it's a party every day..

If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into s….

Oftentimes, when music is just blasting out it seems like it's overcompensating for something missing in the song's structure. When I think of the mu….

The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there's nothing you can do to save it - it's a horrible feeling..

When I'm in the mode of feeling positive about love, I don't really feel the need to mark it down in song. In fact, I know what that song would sound….