I'm just as comfortable performing solo with just my acoustic guitar and vocal as I am with a band. The main thing for me is that the performance remain rooted in the words and voice, that there be no place to hide.

The music takes you. It has to be alive. It's like you hammer something, and the way it happens to bleed leads you into new directions.

Swans are majestic, beautiful looking creatures. With really ugly temperaments.

I'm just as comfortable performing solo with just my acoustic guitar and vocal as I am with a band. The main thing for me is that the performance remain rooted in the words and voice, that there be no place to hide.

I like loud electric guitars because I like how you can just lose your entire being in the sound.

Making those CDs, signing them, numbering them, packing them. It takes hundreds of hours, but it's worth it because I'm able to do the thing I love.

I have my own record company. I have to answer to God, basically. I'm not young, so I want to make the best possible work I can before I exit.