Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun..

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….

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

I probably couldn't have the same experience listening to that song because I'm self-conscious about some of my singing parts..

One second you're having the time of your life in front of all these people, and then you come backstage to the exact opposite - there's only lukewar….

I want to be around these positive, expressive people who are doing something different and who also want to get the hell out of there and don't want….

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….

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….

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..

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….

Adding instruments to parts of a song and having them somehow find a pocket. That to me was a huge lesson. Like, there's more than 808s in the univer….

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

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 ….

I have nothing against people getting their band back together, but the artists I love marked a time in my life, and to merge that time with now can ….

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

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

I've had terrible, terrible, terrible shows where I just thought, "That was off-key" or I forgot lines or I thought I looked like an idiot, and then ….

I was living in a loft with Dave Sitek - this loft full of people just working on their stuff. Some were painting, some were writing. Any plans you h….

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