As music becomes more computer-based, it's lost some emotional impact.

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

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.

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?

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

It was disturbing to me that an idea or a song could become something so different from what you originally intended. It's like if a friend took a stupid picture of you at a party on their phone, and the next thing you knew, it was on every billboard.

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