We're artists. We cry out to be exploited on some level. Write a dissertation on my work. Write a biography about me.

The whole exploitation thing is funny, too. Exploitation is the nature of the world, isn't it?

It's like that where these little anecdotes come through, and I guess that's what I like about books like that [He Stopped Loving Her Today]. Fiction now is so experiential.

Only cool people care about the origin stories of why they like something, and I'm not cool.

Everybody is so goddamn sure of themselves, it just makes you realize this is the curse of the modern world.

Fashion costs money, but songs are free. You can write them for free and you can sing them for free and they can infect those around you or the people from the future and they can sing them for free too.

We're artists. We cry out to be exploited on some level. Write a dissertation on my work. Write a biography about me.