I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.

I’ve always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres.

I'm not too embarrassed to say I'm the definition of the target audience. This is my generation, the one of exalting music in album form.

I definitely care about how the concept of New York punk was constructed, and why it mattered. But I wasn't gonna do that. Partly because I'm not a great journalist...

Writing is physical for me. I always have the sense that the words are coming out of my body, not just my mind.

In the sea of words, the in print is foam, surf bubbles riding the top. And it's a dark sea, and deep, where divers need lights on their helmets and would perish at the lower depths.