It's probably odd for someone to read an interview where the interviewee is worried about exposure while they're talking in an interview.

The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.

It's hard to get concert tickets.

When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship.

I lived in Texas for 10 years. There were a lot of people chewing, including my dad.

Part of the way that I work is to observe.

It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.