I knew what I didn't want to do- that's always my starting point. The starting point is always that I don't want to repeat myself. Or I try my best not to, with varying degrees of success.

I like things that are beaten up, that have lived a little. I like things that are real. I like things that are made out of wood or string. I never feel very responsive to plastic machinery.

At this point in my life, I'm probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it's gonna help me be able to do what I need to do.

I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book.

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent.

But huge photographs of dead bodies are slightly different. I couldn't find much humor there.

Never settle for anything less than you want.