I'm not reading any novels right now, though not for lack of trying. Unless they're really good, my attention in most novels tends to sputter out after a hundred pages or so - an awful admission for someone who is trying to write one, but it's true.

I think one of the dangers of humor is becoming seduced by it and sacrificing the story for a few laughs.

I think I couldn't give myself any advice apart from just do exactly what I want.

At the moment we're playing more stuff from our upcoming album which is really a departure from any record we've done.

What works for eating and swimming might work for reading and writing.

I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story that orbits the literal prose must happen in the reader's imagination. Who knows, maybe the dwindling attention spans means a lucrative future for short story writers.

I think that the internet is a beast of burden.