I just started going to shows. I don't know how submerged I am: I feel guilty that I don't get out more, but I really like being inside the house.

I consider myself a lyricist first and foremost, but if you get something else out of what I do, that's fine too. I'm not sitting back here telling people how they have to take my stuff. We just want to play music, and hope that people like it.

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

I make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for experimental novels, I might really be onto something.

Conservative forces in the South have a lot of power - almost dynastic - dating back many years.

A novel is a performance you have to plan.

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.