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 tend to want to listen to melancholy music, but sometimes if you're feeling too sad, you can't.

In retrospect, it's ridiculous that anyone saw me as a fashion icon, since all I was trying to do was to dumb down my middle-class look by messing with my hair. Throughout the eighties I was invariably half-sure and half-confident about whatever it was I wore…Still, I've always believed—still do—that the radical is far more interesting when it looks benign and ordinary on the outside.

I was talking to somebody about the L.A. hardcore scene, and they were saying that it was hard for them to picture punk rock at the beach. Like, the aesthetic didn't mix or something - black forms in the sand.

I'm really nostalgic for Malibu area because I've spent so much time there. People don't think of California as having a history.

People pay to see others believe in themselves.

I always think of baseball as so existential. Like, you're just out there in a field, in a big expanse of green grass.