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

...It's an unmeetable level of writing. But even if it's something I feel like I can't ever attain, it doesn't crush my spirit. I figured out early on that you gotta find your own strengths and hone them rather than trying to emulate something that impresses you.

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.

My influences are vast and varied. I was into classic rock at the same time that I was into hip-hop. It was just that hip-hop was the first music that I got really really into. Rock was right on its tail.

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 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.

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