I think the music business will eventually crush me, but I [smiles]... I'm ready.

It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually.

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

I don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record

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.

I think the suggestion that all my songs are personal is insulting because that assumes that I have a bunch of issues that I feel the need to unload on strangers. That is not the case. It also assumes that I just talk about myself the whole time which, again, is not true.