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I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness.

It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something.

It's not like I force myself to think of sad things, but... it's more that I make music because it makes me happy.

It's really easy to do sad; you just put on some sad music and write dramatically - everybody can do that.

I find sadness and strife to be so much more interesting with an upbeat melody.

Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.