George Oppen wasn't a larger than life personality, but I'm not either. And he lived a long time, so he was happy. Going down in flames is fine, too.

We always did our own mixing.

There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.

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

My wife says that I changed people's lives or ways of thinking and that I should always be proud and grateful. If I'm dismissive of what we do sometimes, a little bit, she's like, "I was a fan, you changed my life," or whatever. That's what she says.

Everyone wants to be loved, generally. If you released a record and nobody said anything, if you didn't get any feedback from people you don't know, i.e. the press, you'd be sort of upset. To me, any press is good press.

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.