I have to reign myself in a lot.

My mind is turning into kind of a fine gelatinous ball of pepper

Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry

I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots of other things. It was such a great visual culture.

I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was, in a way, very basic. So all I wanted to have was drums and another guitar pretty much playing what I wrote on guitar, and I was just going to sing.

The band has a liberal philosophy - that's sort of a given.

A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.