The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down.

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

Maybe I don't have the patience to make a virtue of necessity - the patience to carry something all the way through, and to actually say something. Lately, the songs are more jagged and they don't really lend themselves to that. I just take it one bit at a time.

The earlier stuff is more like "this is happening to me," but now there are more songs that are accusatory or something, or more declaratory. I don't know where that voice comes from, like, "I've been down the road, we've been there and done that." That's sort of like a tougher style, or a less vulnerable style.

Family is the best. I can honestly say, it's a gift that is beyond making art. I didn't know that when I got into it.

Some people, they've had a lot of fun, even if it was dumb fun and a shitty body of work.

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.