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.

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

Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians.

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

This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody’s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear onscreen.

If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of them.

If you get into a fight and somebody punches you, you get two feelings. One: That really hurts. Two: That relief in the realness of, like, Wow, this is what it is. It's not an intellectual process.