Kayfabe is kind of a code. To break kayfabe is to let people know that the punch was not real and that the match was scripted.

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

Anger is preverbal, so, by the time you're using words to express an angry feeling, you're already imposing loads of structure on that primal experience.

There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that.

There are stylists I really love. I'm a huge Joan Didion fan - if I wrote something that she might like, then I'd feel very proud. I want the action to move as quickly as it does in A Book of Common Prayer, where one thing bonks right into another very quickly.

Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear.

[Dennis] Etchison would write stories that were just punch lines at the end. You wouldn't realize something horrific was happening until the last paragraph.