I'm a total ho for any writing workshop, any technique from anyone.

Advice is not really very useful. People gave me terrible advice, and I guess I was just smart enough to ignore some of it.

There are bands, like R.E.M., who want to have 17 records, and some are terrible and some are great. I don't know if people think like that anymore. Things are more atomized now.

At certain point, you realize it's easy to play music for the rest of your life: just don't sell your guitar. Maybe you get a day job, but as long as you have a guitar, you can play.

I'm fascinated with the attitude of younger rock bands, even ones that are making money at it. I don't ever hear them talk about it as a "career." It almost makes me think there isn't even a music industry anymore, like an atom bomb fell and it was just eradicated forever.

I sometimes try a variance of the drawer trick - [I write it] and then come back to it and see if it blows.

I'm a total ho for any writing workshop, any technique from anyone.