I like the idea of interviews where you just talk about stuff instead of where it's my chance to talk to my public through something else.

I love to read about music and about art, but I don't try and take things about mythology or guidelines as to how I'm to behave as an artist. It's the realm of intellectual debate. Actually, more and more my direction is trying to get further away from being self-conscious of what the parameters are of the mainstream, where it intersects with the underground.

Generally I try to read anything but indie rock journalism or anything about music at all, especially in the summer.

[When I happen to] read interviews where people are such pros and they come out looking so good, [it comes off as] a little smug or something.

Lots of people take the option of not activating their own life, of really letting it happen.

The architecture of the song, if it's built properly, can withstand all kinds of things.

We don't have T-shirts with my face, but there I can see the beginnings, especially young girls seeing me as sort of a icon in that way. And in that regard I'm more than happy to step in.