I'm a boxing junkie, a serial-killer junkie, and a classical guitar junkie. All of these guys are great, poetic references.

When you get older, you're bothered, or inspired, by other things in life than a girl breaking up with you. Things get heavier as you get older.

Nylon string is still a new love and I'm not tired of it yet.

The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.

I didn't want to put myself, or anyone else, asleep with another quintessential Mark Kozelek album.

When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life.

Anyone who has toured as long as I have, or who has traveled as extensively, and says that they've never cheated is lying.