I do play soccer, but it's exhausting in a way.

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.

A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.

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

My wife is a big fan of George Oppen and I got into him. I could have a career like his. It's not an alpha male situation, George Oppen. It's quiet. It's poetry.He just lived a life of an intellectual poet.

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.

If there can be some paradigm shift thing that you can be part of, that's cool.