Every song has a different genesis, or feeling. Usually the lyrics, I don't really know what it's all about, I just kinda do it. I mean, there's a combination of, like you're saying, that kind of lyrics about commitment or vaguely relationship lyrics mixed with jokey 90s Beck-style non-sequiturs and stuff.

If you have no shame, and it’s your goal to get people into bed, how much higher could your success rate possibly be?

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.

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

I did some writing. I was just taking the kids to school. I did a couple things and we did some tours. It was a lot of downtime.

I'd like to ghost-write Liz Phair's novel. But I don't really know about that. It seems like a dignified thing to segue into as I approach the other side of 45. My hands are just full right now. There's the potential to try to write some kind of biography of Pavement - sort of a cryptic, nonfiction/fiction blowout. The story's never been told well. But that's a lot of inward-gazing that I'm not sure I want to do. I like to look out.

I thought The Doors were the greatest band for a while.