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

Men tend to dominate whatever public discourse they participate in, and another big part of feminism is to let women have their say. Men's voices can be welcome at the table, but there is a time and a place, and maybe it's now, for men to make a little less noise, make their needs less known, and listen to the needs of others.

Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.

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

Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.

I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.

I did a lot of music criticism. I don't think much of it was any good. I think I wanted to show off a lot when I was younger. Now I just want people to enjoy the story. If it were possible to publish anonymously, that would be awesome.