I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in

But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.

It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin.

So if somebody writes a song that appears to have some meaning then everybody thinks that it's a really heavy song.

I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination decides it needs to take a nap. maybe that's what it needs to do.

People are so... seem so chaotic internally, but being filtered through some form, like making a record, sort of filters it down into something that can be understood.

I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience.