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

I'm the kind of person that, as a listener, will go the extra mile to interpret something that's fairly meaningless, or that might be meaningless.

When I run across something that feels like a real eye-opener, it's gonna have an influence on me forever.

I'm an atrocious business man, because it's just not the way I think about things. And that's pretty much what all that Grammy/MTV kind of stuff is tied into.

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.

Who's got the most heartbreaking voice? I don't know. Tough question.

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