I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near the end of the process.

I think about the sentence a long time, and then I write it. I don't revise it once it's set down.

It was a really strange way that I came into music. Once I gave voice to it, the pit of emotions that I guess I knew was inside of me for a long time, the stream never really stopped.

In a strange way, you have to have a certain amount of distance from a thing in order to be able to write about it.

I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.

I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive, and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can't not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops. I won't eat right. I forget to do my laundry.