You know, my music utilizes things from the past, because that's what the past is for. It's to learn from. It's not to limit you, you shouldn't be limited by it.

I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers.

The criminal ineptitude makes you furious.

It was like Elvis came along and whispered some dream in everybody's ear

I got Mary pregnant and man that's all she wrote. And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a factory coat.

...It's all sort of dreams and it's all illusion. It's theater; it's not real. We're making up stories, you know, and people tend to run into you and believe you are your characters. And I suppose the funny thing is the longer you go, you do become sort of some version of [your characters]. You both diverge from them - you know - you live, but you also permanently inhabit that geography and that mental space - and so you do morph a little bit. We do become what we imagine.