Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what's important to you, does not make you weaker.

People don't buy records anymore. I don't know how people can support themselves.

Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.

What's interesting to me is drama and conflict. Things aren't interesting without conflict and resolution of conflict - or striving towards a resolutions of conflict.

If you're an artist trying to put out your own record on your own label, it's hard to get a distribution deal because no one wants to sign a deal with one entity. They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.

Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.

You know what, the drummer is my manager. He's busy. And I'm busy. I don't need the dough, though. But having said that, there's a limit to how much bad music I wanna play. I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn't great.