❝You have to learn that not everything has a solution that day, you know. I think that’s part of the thing about growing up is that certain things are not gonna be figured out today and that you may have to go to sleep, with two or three knots in your head, and there’s nothing wrong with that and they will get figured out.❞

❝I think we live in a time now where people are trying to decode things and I think that’s ridiculous. Although maybe they always did and I’m just picking up the wrong part of history but I feel like there’s so much— doing anything other than listening to it. As if abstract thinking is just completely dead, the idea that you could just listen to an abstract idea instead of saying ‘What’s that for? What’s that about? Who’s that to?’ I write e-mails to people, I don’t write songs to people. I’ll call people on the phone if I have a question, or I’ll write a farewell letter, I’m not gonna write a song, ‘cause if I wrote it in a song there’s a chance that person wouldn’t understand it was for them, right? I mean, I’m a pretty explicit guy so I would much rather write the farewell letter, it’s easier that way and it doesn’t have to rhyme.❞