Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take care of itself.

In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.

Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.

There are people who've prepared their whole lives for real heavy success and bask in it. They're so good at it and they obviously love it. I'm just happy to be making a record.

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

You just want to go back to those 70s albums. Even a lot of the 90s indie records were still done on tape, and you hear the difference.

Sometimes, I think the way the music business has been destructive and the way the fans are been put through it and try to navigate through it, so much is so foreign to what musicians would actually want to do or what would be natural to them.