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I find it harder to write the lyrics afterwards because then you're just trying to fit them into something that's already there.

Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anymore, they just want to be told something. Until these great things started happening with us, I'd really given up on reaching people like that.

Usually, writing lyrics for me is like bleeding drop by drop from the forehead.

I've gotten to a point where I don't want lyrics to mean anything.

I don't like lyrics that are just thrown together, that were obviously written as you went along, or the song was already written and the guy made up the lyrics in five minutes.

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

I'm a great believer in not over-thinking lyrics. You might become technically better as a songwriter, but you lose what originally made your songs great.

The songs sort of come out spontaneously and it'll take me awhile to figure out what exactly is happening lyrically, what kind of story I'm telling. Then I start building little bridges - word bridges - to make everything go from one point to the next point to the next point until it reaches the end.