Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.

Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.

Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal.

In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.

Youths write me and tell me that their band will go nowhere because of all the bad bands in the world. I tell them there has always been awful music and that no great band ever wasted any time complaining, they just got it done. Their ropey ranting is just a way to get out of the hard work of making music that will do some lasting damage.

I'm a big fan of the American Tapes label. But that's very hard to keep a grip on that because you blink your eyes and they've released three records, all of which are limited edition, all sold at one show. So you have to follow in drips and drops on eBay, which I do.