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

Good things never last, bad things never die.

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

When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on.

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

I like a lot of hardcore, but it's just a genre about which I don't have much to say. It's kind of a thing where, unless you're active in the hardcore community, what could you have to say of value about it? It resists criticism because it's not just a style but an entrance into several different worlds of ideas- political, philosophical, societal. The music is really only part of the whole scene. In that sense, the music doesn't change much because it shouldn't: It needs to be there as a signal that you're entering into a certain discursive mode, maybe.

I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.