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

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.

I feel the most natural thing is for music to come that way because it's sort of like poetry. Though I do think with poets that I like, like Charles Olson or Ezra Pound, they were rewriting constantly, until the poem becomes a diamond.But with music I don't really feel that way.

The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down.

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'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.

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.