I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.

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

It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be.

I didn't want to be on a major label. I wanted all the attention and the noise to go away because I wanted to be something a little bit more substantial.

I know my own limitations. And if somebody says, "I need songs for a cartoon garage band - they look like this and they should sound like this," it gives you a direction. I like having that kind of assignment.

The only way I was allowed to play was by convincing bands to let me do a few songs while they set up. That went on for years.

There's a different physiology happening between the sound waves and the body that doesn't happen with music playing off the computer. About five years ago, I got a turntable that hooks up to your computer, and I put the vinyl in there and I listened to it back-to-back with a CD, and it didn't even compare. But people don't have time to go track down vinyl, lower it in, all that. And they probably don't care. It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be.