Basically, no one else gives me any opinions on lyrics. I don't ask for them. If they did, I would listen.

I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.

In the early '90s, it felt like there was space - there was like an empty feel. There was nobody really doing this. Maybe the Pixies were, a little bit. Their lyrics were also disjointed, more psychosexual or something. That's part of youth, too, maybe, that you just feel like you're doing something different.

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

I like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though.

I know the world doesn't need maybe another of [a particular type of song] - the same thing again - but you can't help yourself. And some people like it, but you kind of know in your heart that it's a lesser version of what you've done before. But maybe it has a good tempo, or it feels fresh, but it's still not.

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