"You’ve described yourself as being 45 and Tegan as being closer to 19. Why?

When we were writing the songs on the album, Tegan was doing a lot of traveling, meeting up with friends, drinking and partying, and she was single, so she was kind of behaving like a 15-year-old. A lot of the album was written when she was falling in love and having her heart broken. And I was at home—I bought a place—and I was like Suzie Homemaker, settling in and bitching about my taxes and watering my plants. I was like the oldest 26-year-old on the face of the planet, at least in my mind. So the record was written from two completely different perspectives. But I feel like it’s cohesive." (read full interview).