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.

The process of touring is always so weird to me. Once you've made the album, that's over, you move along.

I think taking too long to work on a record you sort of lose some of the feeling, so I write as fast as I can; it's just this manic phase where I'm by myself and or on tour and I write and I write. And I send them to the guys, and we start planning our studio ventures.

I still get really excited looking at stuff that I've seen every day for 20 years.

Labor for a lot of people has a negative connotation. But not for me. I always want to be working.

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

I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it.