I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.

I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.

There's more to life than listening to rock music.

I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.

As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job.

When we've got something to say to the world, we will. I'm really happy that people are interested. "So, what's up with the Pixies record? So, what's up with the Pixies record?" One guy just kept asking me and asking me in an interview, and I kept saying, "I just got done telling you no, there's nothing to report."

I've got a small, loyal audience, which is great. And I appreciate that. They're there for me every time.