There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

You can't get better at things you never play.

Music is worth doing just because. It doesn’t have to be justified by some political point of view, and it’s kind of insulting to the music to make it a tool for something else.

If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.

Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.

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 touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years.