I definitely didn't have a lot of money. I had been fired from a record store. I was just trying to get by. I was on unemployment. I didn't have anything going full-time.

I didn't really know why I wanted to go to college. I didn't really have a reason to go there other than the fact that everybody else was doing it.

People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.

Around the time I dropped out of college, I decided to start taking what I liked about short stories and apply it to writing songs - to make these things that would change and keep going.

An important meeting point for me was realizing the similarity between a DJ set and a Grateful Dead set: I grew up listening to how the Dead would take a song and just jam on it, and then transition into another song.

We're all living in different states and we all have different systems within those states. Even on the most basic personal level, it affects me.

I definitely don't want to play by myself. I don't relate to playing music that way. I like interacting with people.