When you listen to the Anthology of American Folk Music, or anything like that - a compilation of garage bands from the Northeast in the early '60s - you're not necessarily listening to the band and thinking about the lead singer, or the story of the group, or the context or the mythology of the group. You're just listening to the song and whether or not it has a hook.

I'm obsessed with five different things a day. It's like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.

We all come back to our little worlds.

It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are.

I'm interested in acting as much as I'm interested in gardening. I want to garden, eventually. I want to learn how to do a lot of things. I've always wanted to learn how to paint, too. I'd like to try everything, but music is my reason for living.

I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.

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