I'm pretty confident that people are going to come along for the ride. If they don't, tough.

You make your work and you can't ask for approval when you're doing it. Otherwise, it's going to be untruthful in some way.

I'm always trying to push myself into unfamiliar places with the music, sometimes without success, I have to admit. But I'd rather be there than relying on a style that people recognize and want to follow.

As far as playing playing festivals and everything, I feel like that's what I was born to do. I'm an entertainer, hopefully in the best sense.

I'm a producer in the old-school way - not just some slacker working on Pro Tools.

I really wanted to get to the animal core of rock music and eliminate anything that wasn't necessary.

I went to art school and never thought I'd be a musician, but then punk rock came along in the late 70s and kind of ruined my life. So I quit art school to get involved in music and I've been doing it ever since.