It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it.

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 enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.

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

Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of it, and then when you get a good angle, you throw it through a window to see what happens.

If you're standing in the middle of a ring and you're playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that's real.

I really love Durham more than any place I've ever been; some small towns can be really provincial and strangling, but Durham is the best city in the world.