As anthropomorphic and surreal people have said my early writing was, to me it was really stock and almost banal in the sense that it was just description, the poetry of comparing: "Your feet are like A, and your eyes like B."

When real work happens and that's when real art happens.

People want to be successful, and they want to be acknowledged for what they do. Sometimes they make really great art and aren't. Historically, the best artists weren't. But their work survived.

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

Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art.

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.

Some people like to say serendipitous. I like to say magical.