I really don't have that much interest in stardom.

You know, there is something I'm looking for when I'm writing. But I couldn't tell you what that is.

All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going... it's so chatty or something.

I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.

Well, I worked in a sheet metal factory once and scarred my wrist from the cuts. I found a sympathetic psychiatrist who told the draft board I was insane. We used the scars as proof of a suicide attempt.

I'm not even sure who my audience is.

With my records, it's just a matter of trying to create something fresh for myself in a very finite context, which is the pop song. I don't know anything about the people who buy my records, and what, if anything, they get out of them.