Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.

I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.

Because of my politics, people think I'm anti-American. But I was quite the reverse. What I don't like about the United States is when the government acts like an old, imperial 18th- or 19th-century European power.

I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.

I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.

The United States is a country where everybody can start again.