Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to.

I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.

I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young, and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else.

There are so many ways to respond to music besides feeling like someone's communicating with you. It gives me a charge.

When all my friends insisted that they were feeling jaded, it struck me as an affected pose. To me, everything is always new.

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

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