I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.

Sometimes, reissues can be revelatory, or put the original record in a different light, but those are rare.

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?

There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable.

Whether you're aware of it or not, any kind of collage idea becomes a part of how you see the world once you incorporate media and internet and video games and all these things.

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

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.