For me, the best part is people who watch the movie and tell me it inspired them to collaborate with their friend who's a photographer or filmmaker.
I don't want to take photographs that I won't recognize as myself, and myself isn't necessarily just blankly staring at the lens.
All the girls who have photos of them at parties, like, "Woo!" - that's what someone's going to see of their grandma.
I spent some time in France, visited Egypt and Mexico City. I hung out, biked around, planted some tomatoes. I did everything except wake up in a new town everyday. It was really boring. It's just life.
A year's a long time, but it also flickers past in no time at all.
I had a guitar leaning against the wall and I'd squint at it. It was almost like a dog that had been kicked - I didn't think I had anything to offer it.
With music, I wasn't curious anymore. There was no dialogue. By the time I stopped, I knew it wasn't going to be gone forever, but it just wasn't the right time for me to care about that.
I had to let myself imagine a calendar with no lines; when every single day is being predetermined six months in advance, there's no more fluidity to time.
I said I'd stop for a year, which was inconceivable to me and everyone around me. It seemed like so long. But then, after that year, I looked up and I still hadn't gotten my land legs back at all.
I was in a crazy, private, awesome bubble again, and that's when I started to write.
I wrote the album [Metals] in the fall. In about four months, I went from zero to finished. It usually takes forever.
There's something about live recordings now that's too hi-fi.
I guess there are a lot of people out there that think they're supposed to define themselves in isolation, but that's not necessarily the case.
You just never set roots; you take pleasure in simple conversations, because you know you're not going to have much more than that. It's very isolating, and that can be a good thing.
Be alone even when there's a million people around, because tomorrow it will be a different million people.
I think I prefer the constant renewal. It's almost like sandpapering down any details or any contour of familiarities.
Everything becomes closer once you realize that the world is only as far away as a nap and a meal.
You can get anywhere on earth by falling asleep.
I've never been drawn to concert DVDs because they take away the part of the equation that's most important to seeing a live show: getting jostled around and feeling the energy in the room. I definitely didn't want to make one of those.
But that constant adjustment and adaptation to your new environment, all the variables are the same. There's always a promoter, there's always a rider, there's always a shower, and there's always a stage.
I love storms and how the whole house shakes. When I was a kid, there would be lots of thunder and lightning storms, and they would knock the electricity out. We had this oil lantern that had been in my grandfather's homestead at the turn of the century, before there even was electricity. He'd bring it down off the top shelf, and we'd always play cards.
You realize time isn't just a period that you tell a story within - it becomes a major character in the film. There is no beginning, middle, end because there is always stuff beginning and ending simultaneously.
I like being swept up in weather and observing it as something beautiful and giant.
Instead of just looking back, whiplash-style, I can assume there's something else coming. Time just folds over itself, like origami.
Probably, on some subconscious level, I was motivated by not wanting to spoon-feed any similar flavors.
