I have always felt a little held back by working with other people in recording.

You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life.

Words, for me, don't have as much contextual leeway as sound.

I love a lot of people in bands and people doing weird art stuff, but i will always forget someone and i don't really want to be part of stamping the boundaries on a scene.

I am a musician before a writer, and a drawer before a writer. When I lose sight of that, which I do, my work tends to suffer.

I hope to incorporate more variety of beats, more syncopation. It becomes very easy to play straight beats; straight rock is alluring.

Maybe people are finally tiring of watered down grunge rock on the radio.

I try to drum each day. It's therapeutic.

It's really nice to have things to mail to people when they mail you things, or trade to people at shows. Something homemade, it feels... down to earth.

I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component.

Each day I also try to draw. It's a similar expulsion of buildup: Milking the cows every morning. Checking the chickens' eggs. Why should that be limited to a certain medium?

My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews and blacks and Catholics even.

If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void

You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors.

I am from the Mediterranean area, I have to feel everything. I am a physical person, but I guess that things that you cannot touch and cannot see are also touchable and visible—light, poetry, music.

It's all about loving your parents.

Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.

You can do a lot things in the ensuing four years waiting to vote. You can drum up support or opposition.

I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish.

If you have any duty which must be done, and it seems disagreeable, do it promptly and have it over.

Going back to a simpler life is not a step backwards.