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

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

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.

I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.