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.

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

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

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

I know so many songs. I'm like a walking karaoke torture machine.

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

I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again.