I grew up in Southern California, so the whole concept of a local music history is still kinda novel to me.

[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.

Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority.

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.

I consider myself a lyricist first and foremost, but if you get something else out of what I do, that's fine too. I'm not sitting back here telling people how they have to take my stuff. We just want to play music, and hope that people like it.

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

I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much.