Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.

When Rolling Stone handed me this crazy assignment to be in the studio with James Brown, they had the misapprehension that I'd written for them already just because I claimed my character had.

Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature, and my love of film...

It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed.

what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?

When I write lyrics, I really do go into an automatic folk appropriation mode... I see the vernacular register of 20th century song as being a bunch of forms to adapt and reconfigure.

I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.