Part of me likes words as music sabotage, and part of me wonders why anyone would waste their time liking anything to do with sabotage.

I was born in 1972, which means that in "rock" terms I have no business addressing "the kids" unless it's to shoo them out of my garden.

I knew what real instruments I wanted and, in some cases, who I wanted to play them. I had started listening to a lot of ambient music and jazz and I wanted to incorporate stuff like that, too.

I used to struggle a little bit with the idea of how to separate singing from acting and entertaining.

I'm not that conscious of my writing, so pacing the lyrics doesn't really enter the picture.

There are too many Destroyer records to just start rattling them left them off, but they're there.

When I'm on stage I don't say anything. The last thing I want to do is share my thoughts. I don't know if that's mysterious - maybe it's just old fashioned.