I do think I've learned, in the ensuing years, how to be a more effective bandleader. And maybe, just maybe, we're a little better on our instruments.

The numerous ecstatic traditions - including free jazz and funk - have all been great inspirations.

However naïve it sounds, or however inept the result, I think the idea is to try to alchemize the crap, not just mirror it all.

We [Notekillers] are in no way super-earnest about what we do and if you see us live, you see we are cracking up during songs and saying pretty ridiculous things in-between. We're having fun.

Possibly the only thing we Notekillers place on a higher pedestal than music is laughs, so, of course, we also know that the idea of the title is a kind of humorous futility.

We [Notekillers] aren't necessarily trying to be role models, but if we are, that's cool.

I like to give clues - titles - that can give a simple, evocative hook into what picture or feeling welled up in my mind when I came up with the song.

My personal definition of rock'n'roll is people attempting to do something that's beyond their ability to do it well. And whatever the outward contradictions, I do call us a rock'n'roll band.

Еach song is like starting over. Because somehow, no song's formula works for another. And that's the beauty of it all. Each song's destiny is embedded in its DNA. And our job is to reveal it.

Inevitably, as much as we loved punk rock, our noise was coming from a slightly different place.

To me, everything in the world comes down to two categories: "about-ness" and "is-ness". "About" represents or describes something, while "Is" is the thing itself.

Learn to see what you are looking at.

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.

What is cool today is not going to be cool tomorrow, and what wasn't cool yesterday is going to be cool tomorrow.

How can you not be romantic about baseball?

I am not convinced that means [Donald] Trump is a lock to be the next president but it does suggest that what he has tapped into is both lasting and powerful.

I'm sixty-two, and it's ecological sense to die while you're still productive, die and clear a space for others, old and young.

For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.

Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.

The sun is new every day

I didn’t have much school. Three years.