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.

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

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

I'm just kind of a hippie. Age is not that relevant to the music.

I don't want to be in Mötley Crüe or something.

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

Well, you know, it's a younger person, and it was maybe an effort to be a little more sincere and adult about the lyrics occasionally, which is a good thing. It's nice that it's not too self-conscious like some of our lyrics could be.