I'm no good at predicting what will endure with people. I only know what speaks to me.

I'm a terrible drummer. I can tune 'em pretty good, but I'm a pretty bad drummer.

There are a few artists that I'm really into. I mean, I'm a big Nick Cave fan. And there's a band from Australia called Big Heavy Stuff that's one of my favorite bands ever.

Stage presence is not something I spend a whole lot of time thinking about. On the one hand, I do, because I have, like, favorite front-people and I know what's excited me to see in a band. But I can't be David Yow [Jesus Lizard frontman] and still play guitar.

I think politics and personal psychology and interrelationships - these things are interrelated to me and overlap.

I think there's been this long cycle of the big companies making a lot of money by underestimating people's intelligence and people are used to it now. So, they're so used to having their intelligence underestimated that, for most of them, it really isn't worth the bother of paying a little more attention to something that might hit them on a deeper level. But you can't really read people's minds.

The fact of picking up an instrument and writing a song and expressing yourself publicly has a powerful political dimension.