Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.

I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history.

I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league.

I never really got the book together for the thing, so I had all the songs and the characters. But by the time we'd gotten it on the road and I'd been doing it for 18 months, oh God, I couldn't wait to move on to something else.

I'm not sure that an art career would have any benefit for me; I'm not sure it's what I want. I don't think I want to be a designer-rock artist.

The only art I'll ever study is stuff I can steal from.