I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

Back in the 90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.

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

Our [former] governor [Pat McCrory] was supposed to be a moderate, but he found himself beholden to people who have much more draconian ideas. I think he assumed this stuff flew under the radar.

North Carolina was on the vanguard of being for [ trans rights ], and that's why we're seeing this push back. The conservatives noticed that there had been a lot of progress and they tried to tamp it down.

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

[Dennis] Etchison would write stories that were just punch lines at the end. You wouldn't realize something horrific was happening until the last paragraph.