Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

The idea of making music from an imaginary culture was to give ourselves a set of restrictions and parameters within which to work. Otherwise, we might have just gone on all kinds of creative detours, some of which might have been interesting. But better we confine ourselves to something.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.

Punk. . .was more a kind of do-it-yourself, anyone-can-do-it attitude. If you only played two notes on the guitar, you could figure out a way to make a song out of that, and that's what it was all about.

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?