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

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

I would have issues with directions songs were taking, but I never heard one of Carlos' [Dangler] basslines and said, "I don't like that, do something else." The same goes for the beat and the guitars. I think that's why we were able to make four albums together.

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.

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.

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.