I think that's what all art is for - for people to express what it is to be human. That's the purpose of it.

The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford.

Pornography takes all the reality out of sex and Disney does that to family life.

What people have to make sure of is that they're not replicating something that already exists. You really have to ask yourself: "Is there a point in me doing this? Has this already been said before? Is this moving things along or is this just adding to the giant pile of junk that's already there?"

I recently spent quite a bit of time in Sheffield, England, which is where I'm from. I wouldn't move back there, but it's funny when you spend a bit of time in the place where you were brought up. You kind of realize how that place has had quite a big effect on you or made you a certain way.

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

The good thing about people really is their iffy-ness and dodginess, isnt it?