When you're traveling on a body of songs that you have played for many, many years, for most nights of your life - I'm sure you've experienced this y….

The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent to t….

Sometimes a loss that just comes out of left field rings in a very weird way when you have actually sort of relied on this small moment with this or ….

I actually enjoy Instagram. I enjoy seeing what people who I have some connection to are doing around the globe. I'm even old-school Instagram. I'm h….

I am the stereo-typical classic lapsed Catholic. Religious themes crop up in my songs sometimes as metaphors and other kinds of touchstones for getti….

I think I'd like to see CDs disappear. Too much plastic crap lying around. If I want some music these days, I'm gonna either get as MP3s or on vinyl..

Some people never need to let up at all..

Bands-- enough with the crayon face-paint-- you're better than that..

It's almost weirder sometimes when you don't have a full life experience with someone's ups and downs, knowing what they've been through. Sometimes a….

You play the one song that people want to hear the most every night, and for every audience that's a special thing. And usually that translates back ….

I'm even old-school Instagram. I'm here for your "What did you have to eat today?" I'm fine with that..

I think it's become such a part of younger people's daily life to have the instant access to each other that it sometimes gets a little presumptuous.….

I actually enjoy Instagram. I enjoy seeing what people who I have some connection to are doing around the globe..

I love touring. But it's super nice to have a new reason to play shows that isn't based around that perennial cycle of album/tour/promotion..

If so much of your experience is devoted to the thought of documentation, you're already sort of spinning out this narrative from this moment that yo….

There are more people that are WORTH playing for and making records for than the fickle and casual - they just don't blog about what they hate as muc….

I do feel like at the end of anger I have to have something that grounds it..

My "degree" has done nothing for me at all. But that I've learned - the critical thought processes I've tried to keep sharp - these things were furth….

When you make a record and have to go out on tour for it, you have to go out on tour for it. Whether it's going to be joyful or not, you have to do i….

There's a definite machinery behind everything that a band does, and sometimes it's hard to figure out how far to go in delegating certain responsibi….

The early 2000s for me were a very emotional time, politically. I'd been through Reagan and been through first Bush and Clinton, and it's not like I ….