I like visual imagery in my head.

When you do a cover it's a way to get attention clicking on something. At the Quiet Music Festival, The Jicks did this Nirvana song, very unrehearsed and not important, but then all the websites were like, "They covered Nirvana!" People like covers of famous people.

I still hate [the Eagles]…. There’s levels of evil in it to me.

Don't go to the same studio twice, or work with the same engineer twice.

I'd like to ghost-write Liz Phair's novel. But I don't really know about that. It seems like a dignified thing to segue into as I approach the other side of 45. My hands are just full right now. There's the potential to try to write some kind of biography of Pavement - sort of a cryptic, nonfiction/fiction blowout. The story's never been told well. But that's a lot of inward-gazing that I'm not sure I want to do. I like to look out.

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

I just imagine that every song in and of itself is great, but when you add them all up, it's too much of me maybe.