I don't know if you look back on your life and just see successes, but probably the first things that pop up are the regrets.

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

There's no reason to stop. Who knows what's around the bend? To participate, meet new people. It's mostly other musicians and people like you, or anybody I meet who's in this, that keeps me going.

When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.

Obviously songs and musicians mean a lot to people.

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

I feel the most natural thing is for music to come that way because it's sort of like poetry. Though I do think with poets that I like, like Charles Olson or Ezra Pound, they were rewriting constantly, until the poem becomes a diamond.But with music I don't really feel that way.