Faster Times interview

I think of a song as something you build. It’s not something that you do, it’s not something that comes out of your gut. It’s like you have bricks, you have mortar, you have a trowel – You don’t have a building plan yet, you just have all the raw materials and you just start building it and you hope to god you get something good.

I like to see a 1923 7th grade student math book, because usually in the back it has a pocket with a ruler, or some kind of notation in there, it just brings me back to the fact that songs are built like that

But even an enormous space can be intimate, insular, confined in its infinitude.

You get the job fucking done.