I am still not taking my "career" in music for granted. It is constantly surprising that it works. Generally my thinking about the future has this as….

It's interesting to think about the different forms one place can take..

For some reason focusing on destruction and mortality is more poetically exciting to me than hope and love..

When I read War and Peace in Norway, really far away from humanity for a long time, it was such an amazing, affirming blast of "humanity" in all form….

A lot of my songs are about death and the fleetingness of life. It just feels good to remind myself about that a lot. For whatever reason. And it's a….

I really like looking at other people's book collections when I'm at someone's house. I think it is an amazing cross section of a person's brain and ….

When someone close to you dies, the line is shifted really drastically about what is meaningful and what isn't..

I've been thinking a lot about Anacortes and what it's like to be here, though I'm not trying to get people to move here - I would hate that..

I like the idea of politically charged music a lot, but it usually seems to be preaching to the choir and ineffective..

All the books on my shelves, when I would go to them to look for help with my anguish, they all just seemed so crass. They didn't get it. Those books….

I've always written songs with a visual counterpart in my mind that no one else can see..

I wanted to lift the aspects of the lyrics and imagery that I found sincerely powerful and touching, plus the amazing musical extremities, and make m….

I learned how to sit on the couch in front of the fire and read a magazine, just for like eight hours a day, every day. It was... crazy..

It's nice to have a band that can adapt to whatever show we're in, so we can play on a big stage or a house show..

Nirvana really touched me as a teenager and started making me pay attention to music as a participatory thing that I could do. Music that you want to….

I was going to tweet every three seconds about every thought that went through my mind, and I did that for a few days. It was really fun, and funny t….

Twitter is so stupid. I mean, it sucks! It's not a good way to communicate and it's really difficult to use it for any functional thing..

Death is natural, and it happens early for some people. I acknowledge that, and in the next sentence, reject it, because it just sucks. It hurts. I c….

Profound thoughts and profound experiences get revealed to be tricks that we play on ourselves, and poetry gets revealed to be just, like, some dumb ….

People's attentions spans are getting shorter and shorter. I don't want to cater to that necessarily but, just for myself, it feels like more than 40….

If my music is political in a way, and it might be, it's in the way of generating a sensitivity in people, a deeper awareness of the world around the….