With lyrics for me, it's usually musically-based. It's not really poetry- or writer-based. It's rock-based. It doesn't mean that I'm aping rock lyrics, but I'm writing from a music standpoint. I'm thinking more of music heroes, if they're in my mind. Not William Blake or John Ashbury. Sometimes maybe I thought of him a little bit. Or Wallace Stevens. I don't even really fully understand either of them.

Lyrics are back, maybe. It seems like there was a bit of an attitude that lyrics are not important.

I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.

I still hate [the Eagles]…. There’s levels of evil in it to me.

There's probably a certain confidence in your voice, or something, that is validated. You know what I mean? I'm just imagining if people didn't already say that you were cool, that you'd [have] more doubt in what you're doing. That's not so conscious, but that's part of my cosmology now.

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

We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive.