I'd Rather Be Working For A Paycheck,

We [desaparecidos] Have To Make The Message And The Music And The Packaging As Appealing As Possible - As Taco Bell As Possible: Mediocre And No One Can Be Offended By It And Everyone Can Sort Of Enjoy It And We Can Play It On The Radio.

I Don't Hold Anything Against Barack Obama. I Just Think The System Is So Corrupt, It Doesn't Matter How Well-intentioned Someone Is, As I Believe He Was And Is. At The End Of The Day, I Think It Just Comes Down To Money. This Is All About Class Warfare. All Of Our Political Problems.

It's Dangerous To Buy Into Praise And Criticism For What You Do When You're Trying To Present Your Music To People. I Don't Ignore It Completely, But I Don't Dwell On It Too Much.

I've Thought About The Idea Of, 'can Happiness And Creativity Co-exist?' So Much Of What I've Done, I Think, Has Been Based On Being Dissatisfied Or Incomplete Or Lonely. The Answer Is, 'there Isn't An Answer, Necessarily.

I've Never Conceptualized Much Of What I Write About. Maybe, Once I'm Onto Something, I'll Conceptualize A Finished Record. I Want The Songs To Tie Together And Make Sense Together. I'm Not Like, "oh, I Want To Explore This Idea." That's Just Not How The Creative Process Works For Me. It's More Like Something Strikes Me, Or Finds Me, And Then I Wrestle With It After That. I Don't Sit Back In My Armchair, Like, "what Kind Of Philosophy Can I Explore Today?"