The process of touring is always so weird to me. Once you've made the album, that's over, you move along.

The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.

Music is a permanent art, it will always go through phases where you like it and are in tune with it, but saying that music "got bad" is infantile. The same is true with your life.

I'm not really a goal-oriented guy. I started doing the Mountain Goats just for the sheer hell of it.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

There are real teachers out there; I don't pretend to have their mantle.