We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive.

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

I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.

I don't really know where the songs are coming from often. Many of the best things I made up were just off the top of my head.

Family is the best. I can honestly say, it's a gift that is beyond making art. I didn't know that when I got into it.

I really do think everybody can sing.

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.