All eyes on the calendar, another year I claim of total indifference.

So when your (new) eyes meet mine they won't see no lies, just love...

I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.

I keep my eyes closed a lot when I'm singing because sometimes it's distracting to see people.

One of my best friends, Mike, had a kid. Just seeing him go through it all was inspiring. It would be so nice to care about someone more than yourself. And Mike is a total delinquent, so if he can do it, I figure I can, too.

On every Bright Eyes record, there's some kind of sound collage that begins it. Some of them have dialogue, some don't. I like it because it can kind of slow down the attention span a bit. It's a way to draw you in to the rest of the record.