Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him.

Everyone is broken-hearted except for the drastically unimaginative

The idea of starting a band because of Nirvana and thereby trying to sound like Nirvana is totally not the case.

I don't really get a lot of clarity in my everyday life and my interactions with people. Most things that happen to me aren't very straightforward. They're either vastly confusing, or I realize that I'm inventing whatever meaning I'm deriving from whatever happens and it's filtering through my own indulgent perspective.

I didn't come in and say: "I'm a singer." I came into the band as a second guitar player and a vocalist, but not the songwriter. I had been writing poetry for years, so I sort of had the nature of the words. I felt like no one else could sing my lyrics, so I took a crack at it.

If you're playing a one-minute game, I could squeeze in five to six games before anybody walked by my cubicle. So I got really good at blitz, one-minute chess games. But that's kind of like the cheap chess version.

In an artistic and spiritual sense I'm really not that concerned about what happens after the album is done.