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

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?"

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.

If you're playing a one-minute game, I could squeeze in five to six games before anybody walked by my cubicle. So I got really good at blitz, one-minute chess games. But that's kind of like the cheap chess version.

I didn't come in and say: "I'm a singer." I came into the band as a second guitar player and a vocalist, but not the songwriter. I had been writing poetry for years, so I sort of had the nature of the words. I felt like no one else could sing my lyrics, so I took a crack at it.

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