Faster Times interview

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

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

You get the job fucking done.