I feel very strongly about the subject matter in The Dallas Buyer's Club - about AIDS and people fighting illnesses, and fighting for survival against bad conditions.

Usually I'm not really conscious of what's going on. I don't have a lot of memories onstage. At all.

I see a lot of people doing an "'80s thing" who weren't even born until the '90s.

I'm real critical of myself. I think a lot of what I've done is boring indie rock. I didn't intend it to be that way, but somehow milk gets added to everything.

I read a lot - surveys of vernacular music. A lot of it is the Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music, which I've loved since I was in high school. They had it at the library and I always thought that was interesting, even when I was into punk and stuff. Just the history of storytelling and the amount of melancholy a lot of old music has.

What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?

As a homosexual, my job is simply to sodomize mediocrity.