Every single record I have is a fossil.

If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.

We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic.

For me, Memphis has always been a city that holds a great deal of meaning and also leads me to a lot of thinking. Besides Sun Studio, which helped put rock n' roll on the map all over the world, the legendary Stax Studio also called Memphis home.

This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles.

Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with.

Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here.