Labor for a lot of people has a negative connotation. But not for me. I always want to be working.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

I worked the AV counter at the Roland Heights public library in the '80s. My best story from the library was the time a couple asked for a recommendation, and I recommended Raising Arizona and they absolutely hated it. They came back hungry for blood. I was on my lunch break and my boss came out and said, "Hey kid, you need to come talk to these people. They totally hate Arizona." And he said, "Arizona's a dog; nobody gets that movie."

People want you to play the songs they know. I try not to reflect too much, and I don't really like to focus too much on myself.

I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much.

I just started writing stuff to kill time on summer evenings. This is why I'm always telling people who ask me what they need to do to succeed to give up, do something else.

I usually kind of can't wait until my records leak. Back in the day, you could give people tapes, but you can't do that anymore, because it would be available to everyone on the planet within an hour.