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

It's hard to represent chaos, or like an absence of something. It's much easier to represent the presence of something or a situation.

They say that God makes problems just to see what you can stand, before you do as the devil pleases.

I didnt know how many people knew who Ferdinand was.

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 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.