When I sing the songs, there's a color tone and a place, and it's not a place that I remember in reality. It's usually based on a photo that I took -….

Whenever I get a tweet that's trying to promote a thing someone cares about, I'm like, "how annoying!".

I'm not ... pumped about being alive. But I don't think about suicide ever. I have a kid. I think that's just an automatic shut-off of that idea. In ….

I think that I probably inevitably fetishize nature, although I try not to, because it's kind of embarrassing, repulsive behavior. I think it's just ….

It's a beautiful idea to focus on how everything is temporary and always in flux. It may feel bad now, but it will feel good later, and vice versa. T….

I probably wouldn't kill a spider now, I'd probably try to scoop it up in a cup and put it outside, but not for any reason other than I don't need to….

All things in the world are singing a song, reciting a poem, inaudibly, to their surroundings, to the things they encounter..

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..

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 ….

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….

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….

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..

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….

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

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

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

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….

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….

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….