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.

When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

I try not to do email; I try to talk to people on the phone.

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?

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.

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

Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.