"My parents got divorced when I was really young and I was a very hyperactive kid, so both parents independently would play Enya at the house to calm me down and soothe me as a kid."
"My first concert was Third Eye Blind."
"I guess this song isn't about anything necessarily sad, but it makes me sad just because it makes me think about how inaccessible the past is, but it's called 'Boy Child' by Scott Walker."
"I think women are taught in the music industry that once you're 35, you've expired, and I'm here to prove that factually incorrect."
"Young people have realised that an artist is in charge of what they're doing - this crazy cynicism that artists were puppets has disappeared."
"I want to keep different options for different futures open all the time."
"A lot of the music comes out of that conflict of wanting this other thing and feeling guilty about wanting it, and then it guiding me somewhere despite my kicking and screaming."
"With each project I'm always pushing for clarity."
"So, anyway, I think the format of love songs for me stopped becoming about people and started becoming about life."
"When I came up in a band - not just in a band, but a kind of underground DIY community - there was such a clear cut distinction between what pop was and what not pop was in very simplistic terms."
"I remember thinking that writing love songs was stupid and cliche, and that my job was to not write love songs, because there are enough of them."
"I guess I've gotten older and more sentimental, and I've realized that the love song is just the modern equivalent of a devotional."
"I think there was a real lane built for indie bands during the time when Chairlift came up."
"I was actually really stunned that my label suggested 'Door' as the single to lead with, as it's such a long and winding song."
"Panging is the kind of sharp pain you feel inside when you're reminded of some kind of unattended need or something that you've neglected."
"And a pang is ultimately private. It's not a thing that gets broadcast to the world; it's a kind of internal alarm that sounds when something has to change and it has to change fast."
"I kind of think that's the best way to operate; even when I'm in sessions writing with other artists, I'm always pulling from the kind of emotions that are the most raw in my own life and offering them up in the studio."
"I would enjoy seeing anyone else sing 'Caroline Shut Up.' That would be interesting. I would give that one away, actually, which is funny, even though it's very personal."
"When I was in middle school, I loved Egyptian mythology."
"My mom wasn't thrilled about me being in a band, because she very correctly said she couldn't see any sort of stability in it."
"I'm a horribly chronic 'get half way through the book and start a new one' person."
"If I'm receiving an email from a stranger, I usually like it to be properly thoughtful and explanatory, and not just hitting someone up for a casual favor out of the blue who you've never met before. I really believe in manners."
"I actually don't live anywhere. I live on the road."
"In New York, if you spend a few hours doing nothing, you feel like the whole world passed you by."
"My stepfather is a baron. He has a castle in Belgium that's been in his family for hundreds and hundreds of years. It's not fancy; it's really sort of brimstone and dark. It's got a moat and a drawbridge."
