Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.

I don't believe every download is a lost sale.

It's rooted in things that maybe older people or people my age remember as being rock music. But at the same time, I don't think we're stuck in the past or retro. I think we've tried to push ourselves and experiment with what we can call Wilco music.

I always think I don't have any songs, I don't have anything I'm working on, and I get in the studio and realize there are 20 things I'm thinking about. It's just kind of second nature.

I'm usually pretty happy. I don't ever really get disturbed in any way, or feel like I need to go back and change something.

If someone uses the amount of time I spend in the public eye as criteria for what my music could possibly mean to them, they probably should take a long, hard look in the mirror and figure out why they need to think they're so special. Because I don't think anybody is that special.

When you listen to most of the records that really had an impact on you, they always seem to be from a different era.