People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it'd be hard for them to be convincing.

I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.

Somewhere where people aren't so mad would be nice, but I don't know if there is anywhere like that.

My girlfriend at the time convinced me to send these songs to Cavity Search. When they wanted to put out my record I was totally shocked.

I liked the idea of a self-contained, endless pursuit of perfection. But I have a problem with perfection. I don't think perfection is very artful. But there's something I liked about the image of a skater going in this endless twisted circle that doesn't have any real endpoint. So the object is not to stop or arrive anywhere; it's just to make this thing as beautiful as they can.

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.

I want to keep making records as long as I can and that's the beginning and end of my concern about selling records.