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

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

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 saw an interview with Jay-Z where he said he didn't write down any of his lyrics, so I tried that.

I'm a grown-ass man. I can't be, like, ordering people to put down their phones.

There was no indie rock band in the 90s at the level of, like, Grizzly Bear. I listen to their records and it's crazy how good they sound. That really freaks me out.

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.