We live in an age where many things are working hard to conk us out and anesthetize us. Anything we can do to shake us out of that- with no other purpose than to wake us- is valuable.

I didn't want to make a record that was just guitar and voice, that was just the technology available to me. At the time, I remember thinking, "I am making a Faust album." That didn't translate.

I've always wanted to write a song that goes, "I love you" and a book that goes, "Something happened." Something very direct.

I like California a lot. There's a lot of space, but it's actually the most populated place in the nation.

Trying to find comfort in perpetual discomfort has been my life's work.

Of course, before the internet people found records, too. You can still do it. It's just that people like to make the least amount of effort as possible.

I see so many little boys I wanna marry, I see plenty little kids I've yet to have.