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.

If you have no shame, and it’s your goal to get people into bed, how much higher could your success rate possibly be?

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

I just imagine that every song in and of itself is great, but when you add them all up, it's too much of me maybe.

If someone's really busy listening to other CDs, and worried about what's new and what's truly relevant for discourse now, maybe it isn't that interesting. To me it is, because I'm tuned into that and that's what I like, so it's interesting to me. It's all I can do.

I think the focus of the media changes. At the moment the more electronic stuff like trip-hop was the flavor of the month, just a little while ago. It all depends on the angle, from which point of view you see it.

The word "down," is very musical. It just always comes.