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.

I really didn't study any music. I just picked it up real quick.

A lot of what you do is about how you look. You're a good-looking guy who plays music, and you can't do anything about what happens because of that. If people say, "He's cute. I'm going to go buy his album," hopefully they'll like the music, too.

You know more about me than I do about myself, that's probably true.

Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

CDs, too. Totally corporate. They look real cheap and soulless and they don't smell of anything.

I was hanging out with Jonathan Richman last night.