Someone once said that "The Waste Land" was a scum of poetry floating on a sea of footnotes. That resonated with me, because that's kind of what I wa….

There's a lot of discussion about whether you should be a good live band or a good studio band. I think you can use the studio to make a great "studi….

Despite the fact that I trust the people at major labels who tell me that they want to offer me a home as a "stable artist," who can just do what he ….

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 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.….

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….

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….

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….

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

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..

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

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..

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

Some people never need to let up at all..

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 ….

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

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 ….

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….

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….

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….