Once you're away from music, I realize that's as intrinsic to who I am as anything else. That's the part that takes me out of my brain.

What I value most in new music today is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because it combines so many things like that.

Once you're away from music, I realize that's as intrinsic to who I am as anything else. That's the part that takes me out of my brain.

People are wearing fleece, which is a hard fabric to be angry in.

I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic.

There was a clarity to the Nineties. It was pre-9/11, before that anxiety kicked in that exists right now about the financial crisis or terrorism. We were all just going to move forward into the millennium and everything was always going to get better. Then, whoops, that didn't happen.

I would love to do a reunion tour if it only involved basements across the U.S.