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

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 it.

If you live up against train tracks, it can make your life a living hell.

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 you are attempting to control instead of just experiencing it.

Some people never need to let up at all.

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 here for your What did you have to eat today? I'm fine with 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.

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 does for the long haul, time has shown that it rarely works out that way - the bottom line is the bottom line, not mention the threat of mergers and firings and whatnot, and people get dropped.

Most of the time I wind up with a sleepily mumbled melodic line, sometimes with words, sometimes not. But then with my waking brain I have to decide whether it's worth...I mean, sometimes it's not worth it.

The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent to that is - it might be a little hokey but - a certain loss of identity that then only gets sort of found or ascribed to these moments that are documented.

I actually dream a lot of songs, and I try to be good about voice-memoing ideas.

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 responsibilities and staying COMPLETELY DIY.

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 to you.

I am always thinking music.

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

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

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