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.

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

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

I perceive everything to be constantly subjective and strange. My version of truth in what I express, it feels like that opaque quality that you're talking about. It's just me being legitimate.

I don't really get a lot of clarity in my everyday life and my interactions with people. Most things that happen to me aren't very straightforward. They're either vastly confusing, or I realize that I'm inventing whatever meaning I'm deriving from whatever happens and it's filtering through my own indulgent perspective.

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.

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.