I've noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I'm not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'

Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.

I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it

Things fall apart, it's scientific.

I can't tell one from the other:I find you or you find me?There was a time before we were born If someone asks, this is where I'll be.

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.