Because our daughters have school and it's just such a hassle going down to New York all the time, we can really only go on the weekends, we kind of... Steve came up here and worked out stuff for the second half of the record.

I always felt like an outsider to the music world in a certain way. There was so much less of an art culture in L.A. - and particularly in the South Bay.

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries, because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up.

You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things.

In The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson turns 'making the personal public' into a romantic, intellectual wet dream. A gorgeous book, inventive, fearless, and full of heart.

When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you had no musical training.

I really want to start playing basketball. Basketball and ping-pong are my two forms of exercise.