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My parents live near the ocean, and I've spent a lot of time walking through the water at night, being around the water.

A lot of people get really stuck in this idea that everything's been done and there's nowhere left to go.

Usually, I think you have most of your musical influences locked down by the time you're 16.

The film 'Black Orpheus' is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil.

The idea of peer critique, of talking about each other's art - I just found it so useless.

I'm not someone who can dance to a song I don't like.

What I miss [about church] is being forced to be in community with people that aren't the same as me.

A lot of artists write about the same things their whole career.

I never really felt super-Texan. It wasn't like I was unhappy, but I wasn't superhappy.

The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind.

I don't think the emotional quality is the defining quality of the music but it's definitely something that people have picked up on a lot

I love my iPhone; it's great to have a camera around all the time.

I think there's some pretty amazing language in the Bible.

There are so many bands that I'm kind of aware of through media about them, and it ends up filtering my experience of the actual music.

I don't like to talk about other bands in interviews.

The work that Partners in Health do in Haiti benefits the whole world.

I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers.

I studied the Bible and philosophy in college, and I think in a certain sense that's the kind of stuff that still makes my brain work.

The cliched rock life never seemed that cool to me.

Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that?

It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage.

I try not get too self-aware when writing lyrics.

Everyone has their own talents. It's up to the individual to see what you can actually do.

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

We're exposed to ideas everywhere. The world is full of ideas. I think that television is a pretty powerful medium in that regard.

I feel like I'm kind of a bit of a sponge in a way. Like, if people around me are going through things, I find it very hard not to be empathetic.

Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals.