I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.

People take things a little too personal. I write these songs, and they're experiments with thoughts. That's it. I'm not a teacher.

I don't think I'm a particularly somber human being.

I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really get paid. There's not paycheck at the end; it's more of a "whatever is left over" kind of situation. Also, it keeps me from thinking about my creativity as a business, which it is not. It should remain pure; that's one of the reasons I made music in the first place.

I don't care much about politics. That kind of witchcraft I stay away from because people end up dead. I'd rather die for music.

I don't think anyone knows anything and I don't trust people who say that they do. Don't give me a plan, give me action.

The writing of the record didn't take long, because I just have a huge stack of papers and I just pluck from the stack. It took a long time because it's very expensive to make records; in fact, I think it's a complete rip-off.