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

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.

Usually [the lyrics] go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too.

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.

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

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.

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