That's one of those hazards of an interview: You get tired of your stock answer and you try to get creative and even play devil's advocate.

My whole view of music completely flipped over on its head. I grew up listening to punk rock, SST. I liked people that were making music that weren't necessarily very good at their instruments, it was more about the ideas they had than how well they could play and sing.

There are certain recordings where my voice sounds good to me. Singing live I really enjoy, but I don't know how good it sounds.

That's one of those hazards of an interview: You get tired of your stock answer and you try to get creative and even play devil's advocate.

When I was growing up, I really liked punk rock. I liked the sort of people that played really powerful music that was pretty unassuming otherwise - people who didn't dress weird or do much theatrics.

I could never settle down into a reggae band, that's too bizarre.

For me, I'm more of a songwriter than a guitar player or singer. And not having things to work on was really kind of nice.