The interesting thing about doing press is that I learn what the album is about - I now know, a year later, looking back, what was on my mind at the ….

It's hard to see how much of our social fabric is made up of a radical refusal to love people..

I'm cool with being the sad guy, but I don't want to be the guy who nobody wants around because he's so miserable..

I've come to realize that most of my intellectual postures and a lot of my intellectualism is super defensive and really symptomatic of basic fears. ….

I have a German friend who works on memorialization. The last generation of Nazis and Holocaust survivors are now dying. So literally, we are threate….

As someone who listens almost exclusively to contemporary hip-hop and R&B, I definitely like "No Bullshit" by Chris Brown, and melodically I'm really….

Traveling is amazing. You meet so many great, positive people. You get to see new faces all the time. I don't think that loneliness, it's not like yo….

I do think that we're pretty future-obsessed right now, and I think that capitalism works best when we have a very short memory of the past, when we ….

Every new generation of smartphone just has a different-shaped button. It's embarrassing..

George Saunders is outside of Chicago too. I've met him a few times, actually. I really like him a lot. He's a really sweet guy. He's a big fan of my….

I feel like real thoughts and emotions involve the whole being. And they also outstrip little personal quirks, and they outstrip biography. You end u….

The songs are all indexes of a time in the past when I was writing them..

Have you seen this video of these cows who have been in a dairy farm, a really shitty one, their entire lives, and they're let out into a field, and ….

Sometimes I'll go out to say hi to people, and I'm just not ready for it. It feels too weird, too intense..

Playing live is so weird because I go out there and I try so hard to give something, which will be recognized. And in turn, something will be given t….

"Face Again" is actually the most George Saunders-y song. Basically the verses, I'm describing a world where love is being killed, and then in the fi….

I have this problem where I get incredibly, miserably nervous every single show. This is part of why touring is so exhausting for me. I have not gott….

What I'm confessing is that I've grown to a point where I feel like I should have more answers, and I don't. And I still think that applies in the Ge….

I think that a lot of dystopian literature tends to be really moralizing and just doesn't tend to give credence to the importance of the sentimental.….

I think what's interesting about Alice Munro, too, is the extreme mundanity of things. And how even a life reduced to complete mundanity, like capita….

A lot of electronic-based musicians give very low-risk performances, and it's fun to hear your favorite band play live on a big speaker, but the live….