Especially in music, you wonder, Okay, should I still be doing this? Like, are you overstaying your welcome at the party? But I don't know.

I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.

[Early on,] the attitude was that what I was doing wasn't music.

I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.

I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.

There are plenty of Minutemen. People willing to be Minutemen. Where are the people that want to be George Washington? Where are the Benjamin Franklins? Where is Sam Adams? Where is John Adams?