That's for non-musicians to say: "I only listen to this or that type of music." I think musicians love all music, or at least that's my case.

If time is my vessel, then learning to love might be my way back to sea

Everyone is broken-hearted except for the drastically unimaginative

In an artistic and spiritual sense I'm really not that concerned about what happens after the album is done.

You can't just imitate and keep coming up with ideas. You have to be tapping into something that's pure and unconscious in yourself or you'll have no career.

Sometimes you learn about the personality of your favorite artist, and you like their art a little less, because it doesn't jibe with what you had envisioned.

I perceive everything to be constantly subjective and strange. My version of truth in what I express, it feels like that opaque quality that you're talking about. It's just me being legitimate.

The idea of starting a band because of Nirvana and thereby trying to sound like Nirvana is totally not the case.

Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him.

I never wanted to start a band to sound like Nirvana.

I got the chess bug when I was finishing high school, we were doing chess tournaments at my house. I never got to a very high level.

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.

Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it.

Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning.

I didn't feel particularly close to my father.

There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.

Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.

Saturday Night Live was a show that I never thought I would be on, because I didn't do sketch comedy and I didn't do impressions. I was a stand-up.

90 percent of American schoolchildren are in public schools. And the emphasis on private schools and charter schools and parochial schools is not unimportant.

In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train