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

Something taken off the page can sound great, I guess. Usually it doesn't. It seems like lately Pitchfork is trying to champion lyric writers more.

Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.

Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.

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.

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.

If someone's really busy listening to other CDs, and worried about what's new and what's truly relevant for discourse now, maybe it isn't that interesting. To me it is, because I'm tuned into that and that's what I like, so it's interesting to me. It's all I can do.