My high-school dream was to be in a band, pay my rent and eat - and I've been able to do that for 20 years. So I'm completely content.

I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them.

I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band.

Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn't taken a vacation.

For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.

Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?

I'll always be making music. I'd like to do it my whole life - although I also love words and want to write short stories. But right now, my songs are kind of my short stories.