I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.

They have removed the struggle to find anything. And therefore there is no genuine sense of discovery. Struggle is the first thing we know getting along the birth canal, out in the world. It's pretty basic. Book store owners and record store owners used to be oracles, in that way; you'd go in this dusty old place and they might point you toward something that would change your life. All that's gone.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies.

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder.

Folks who work here are professors. Don't replace all the knowers with guessors keep'em open they're the ears of the town

Well, it's either kiss me or kill me, that's how I see it.