If you don't fit into a certain type, there's a lot of strength in just being who you are.

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.

Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think

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

I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do.

I see it as more of a teenage activity than, you know, she's only 11, but you know, I think it's great that she knows so many girls who want to play music. And I see it more as a teen activity than I do as going into music.