Things tends to often [consolidate] like Disney. It's the same with music. There's Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young and Patti Smith. There's these three people that everyone seems to agree on. No matter what they like, they seem to like those three.

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.

The word "down," is very musical. It just always comes.

I don't know if you look back on your life and just see successes, but probably the first things that pop up are the regrets.

The narrative songs were well-written, like an article in The New Yorker. They're nice and pat. They're more like I'm just showing I can do that when I write a song like that. It's not my true calling.

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 don't want to be in Mötley Crüe or something.