You know, the songs that are self-conscious or jerky, they are that way, but the other ones aren't, so that's a good thing. Some of the songs are Beck-jokey, but the others, they have heart in them.

Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower.

Usually [the lyrics] go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too.

I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.

It's hard to think back. I didn't even know I was going to do it, make actual records. But I was always making up songs, once I figured out that you could do it. I think it's pretty much the same, but there's less urge to get it moving out there. There was a time when it seemed like it was really super important to the audience and now it's just medium-important for people to like us. But that's okay.

Berlin is just an affordable European city that's supposed to be cool. There's nothing too deep about it.

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