My wife is a big fan of George Oppen and I got into him. I could have a career like his. It's not an alpha male situation, George Oppen. It's quiet. It's poetry.He just lived a life of an intellectual poet.

I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.

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.

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

I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.

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.

I'm more into describing a scenario and I move around in that scenario.