It's sort of irritating now - people always ask me, "You're a dad, and how's fatherhood?" If Bob Dylan or Neil Young had a kid, it didn't seem like it made them a different person. It didn't make you old right away.

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.

I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.

I'm thinking, I'm singing like Ozzy Osbourne, but I don't sound like him enough, ever.

There's something in life that's cool, it's relatively cheap, and fun, and populist. Even when it's elitist.

If you want to be negative about the whole thing you can say all guitar bands after the Beatles were just a waste of time because the Beatles were the best. I think it's far better to give new records a try.

Most people want to be seen or heard. You want to shine. That's my way of shining.