These days and times you can't do eclectic records. In the '60s you could, but not anymore.

My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too.

I've never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ceiling. What's wrong with that?

I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it.

Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing.

I'm really influenced by Southern novelists, not many movie people. More like John Faulkner, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck, and people like that.

LA has its own vibe. It has a charm that a lot of people overlook sometimes.