I'm terrified of just being myself because I think it's boring. I know who I really am and I think it's boring.

My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter.

The music is the imperative. It has the upper hand. I think all music, even though it's an abstraction, does motivate a particular meaning. Then it's the job of the musician to honor that meaning and to somehow implement lyrical material that can accommodate that emotional environment.

I'm from the generation that's always been recording, from the very beginning. I learned to play the guitar on the four-track. I started listening to music at a time when people were doing recording at home, when the discussion about songwriting correlated to the discussion about producing and engineering. I think that's a description of my generation.

That's really where my heart is, unfortunately - I'm less interested in songwriting and more into just making noise.

I've always been a visual person, I'm formerly a graphic designer. I've always seen myself as an observer. I like to maintain objectivity and don't get too intimately involved in my subjects.

An imaginary baby is so much easier than a real baby. No diapers to change.