I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.

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.

I think it's just entertainment for people that are interested in the form. To sing along to and be psyched by.

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

That's why you go to a nice studio. You can get a magic take. You don't really have to do anything to it.

Obviously songs and musicians mean a lot to people.

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.