For me, moving is always a big opportunity. Its just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it.

Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill.

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

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."

It's a cliché to state that one should think like a child, but it's clear that kids know something that the world tries to make you unlearn later in life.