Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.'

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

I really like the European carols, and I like that captivating sound that they have that isn't usually in Christmas songs.

I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.