There's political content in almost every song we've ever written on some level. It colors everything.

- Aaron Dessner

The Planned Parenthood 7" project is an example of us putting our noses to the grindstone on and trying to make a little difference. Working on that …

- Aaron Dessner

In fact, after Donald Trump won, some of the relief of finishing record was to turn off all the politics for a while. There were some songs that had …

- Aaron Dessner

"I'll Still Destroy You" song is lovingly talking about how we change our states of mind, whether it's weed or wine or whatever. It's an ingredient i…

- Aaron Dessner

We've always been trying to climb this ladder that leans so hard on our own idea of what our big songs are. We realized recently that we're not a ban…

- Aaron Dessner

Everybody knows we're big liberals and I was a very outspoken Hillary Clinton supporter, and I still am. It's impossible for us to separate the songs…

- Aaron Dessner

Writing lyrics with your wife does lead to talking about yourselves a lot. But this is not an autobiographical account of my personal marriage. It's …

- Aaron Dessner