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.

I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young, and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else.

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.

May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.

I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.

My family, before the divorce, moved several times, and after that we moved a whole bunch more times, and so I don't have an anchor to a single place. Probably as a result of that, I'm a little more attenuated to when people do feel close identification to place, whether they say it out aloud or not. I think that there's a sort of local patriotism that is deeper than national patriotism.

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