I remember being very psyched for our first tours, despite not knowing about the endless stream of situations and setbacks that we'd face.

I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.

For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.

I envisioned all these people who had been admired for having been freaks in their own time, and I saw myself in line with them.

There's always room for improvement. I'm always focused on the results, and those are the precise things that I don't really experience as a part of the performance.

I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.

During those formative times, I really didn't know what was going on, and I was sort of torn in a thousand different directions with how I felt about what I was doing.