Generally, I have an instinct for the noncommercial. And the unpopular.

The band is like a vintage car. You take it out to go for a spin for a couple miles, but you wouldn't drive across the country.

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

Production is something Ive never come to terms with.

I'm good at line-drawing, and some of my color stuff is okay. So I just do it for record covers.

Just as with a guitar, you can improvise a guitar solo, and they'd probably be similar each time, but they won't be exactly the same. With the word, it's probably a bit freer than that. I probably repeat myself more musically than I do verbally.

I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of times, and it just doesn't work. But I get some good passages, so what I'm going to do is just take sections out of them.