Everyone is broken-hearted except for the drastically unimaginative

In an artistic and spiritual sense I'm really not that concerned about what happens after the album is done.

Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him.

The idea of starting a band because of Nirvana and thereby trying to sound like Nirvana is totally not the case.

I had this perverse gravitation towards using a terrible cliché sandwiched in between absurd non-clichés because I thought it gave the cliché a new resonance. It kills me when my lyrics are misquoted, but as long as people are quoting them right, I don't care what anybody has to say about them.

Basically, every band that makes it has some dude with some sense of business. I don't know if our band would've been so successful were it not for Daniel's [Kessler] insight into how things really work. Daniel was the one who was diligently saying, "We should make a demo, send it out, play shows but not too many shows, get on shows with touring bands that are coming to New York."

That's for non-musicians to say: "I only listen to this or that type of music." I think musicians love all music, or at least that's my case.