The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.

American television really is pathetic.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.

You just make different music on a computer. And you can make wonderful music on a computer, but don't pretend that the machinery is transparent. It makes as much difference to what you're doing as it does if you play an acoustic guitar as opposed to a kettledrum. You're not going to make the same music.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.