The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.

If you'd rather learn how to ride a horse or something, I would say do that. That'll keep you out of trouble. You would think a band would get you in trouble, but I think it's the opposite.

It's easy to be negatively funny about personalities in the media. It's just kind of a cheap laugh.

If there can be some paradigm shift thing that you can be part of, that's cool.

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

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

In the early '90s, it felt like there was space - there was like an empty feel. There was nobody really doing this. Maybe the Pixies were, a little bit. Their lyrics were also disjointed, more psychosexual or something. That's part of youth, too, maybe, that you just feel like you're doing something different.