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.

You can't just imitate and keep coming up with ideas. You have to be tapping into something that's pure and unconscious in yourself or you'll have no career.

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

I got the chess bug when I was finishing high school, we were doing chess tournaments at my house. I never got to a very high level.

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.

If time is my vessel, then learning to love might be my way back to sea

It's not like changing one word with my lyrics is going to make them more intelligible or relatable. I was always very misunderstood and taken as very pretentious and serious all the time. I would think, "Do you not see there's a lot of tongue-in-cheek and humor here?"