wanted to highlight that to a certain extent and go deeper into that direction. I also try to write each song in a different key, so I can be as dive….

Whenever I have a bunch of tunes written, I always find a kind of uniform that accompanies the songs..

It was as close as I had ever come to having power over someone, and I equated it with love..

I could've written songs about, for example, the Paris attacks as they happened and have the song out the day after, but doing this project and follo….

I don't think a lot of the times Foxygen songs require much editing. Our band rarely records a song and go, "God that sucked. We shouldn't show that ….

Friends take up time, and I didn't have time..

When it's a folk festival, there's more of an intention on the song and connecting with people..

I see only what you see, but I notice what I see..

My highest aspirations as a songwriter are that people would sing my songs or know songs I've written sometime in as far into the future as I feel co….

Patience is the road to wisdom..

I hate when songwriters refer to their songs as babies..

I pretty much work all the time..

Don't let yourself forget that God's grace rewards not only those who never slip, but also those who bend and fall. So sing! The song of rejoicing so….

I started playing bass in my friend's band for some reason. It was just something I did because, well, he asked me if I wanted to play bass and he pl….

When I performed the songs in front of an audience at the end of each project and I knew the storytellers were in the crowd listening, that was hard..

'Fantasy' is one of the fewer tracks where it's more literal than most of our things, but at the same time it's totally open-ended. Clearly it's a so….

I love to be challenged because I'm wrong a lot of the times..

When I'm recording something (especially because I produce my own music) I might consider how hard it would be to replicate a song on stage..

He who never hurries is always on time..

Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear, And he shows them pearly white. Just a jackknife has Macheath, dear, And he keeps them out of sight..

Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings..