Cities are made for enemies to destroy.

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.

I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.

Sometimes it will be for more money than I've ever been offered before. I mean, am I an idiot again for not doing that?

There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate.

I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it.

A record is something that isn't real or true. It's like cinema. It's a construction of something hyper-real and surreal and unreal all at the same time. You make a space that doesn't really exist. One of the big joys of being in this line of work is building the recorded versions of the songs.