The most entertaining songs don't always come from a nice place. In songs where I think I'm being really sensitive, they seem quite boring actually. I've found that the songs that come out of nastier, more misanthropic places are better.

I'd been thinking I'd have to learn how to play really well, but obviously the message of punk was that you just learn three chords in a week and you're away.

Don't think that the things around you don't count, because they do.

I don't really care what someone's background is; creativity can come from any background.

In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it.

[Jeffrey Lewis is] The best lyricist working in the US today.

Often people poopoo melody as if it's a cheap trick to make people like things, but in my experience it's the hardest part of the tune, to find something that doesn't immediately remind you of something that's happened before.