I live in Texas, man. It's hard to be a vegetarian down here.
I don't advertise what I do to my kids. I don't go around waving a flag. I'm sure they are proud, in a certain way. I'm not like 'hey kids - check this out.' No matter what they do, your dad is still your dad. Nothing is going to help you out in that regard. Dad is just not cool.
I was born in 1974, so I grew up listening to what was on the radio - my mom's car sounded like Fleetwood Mac, because that was what was on the radio.
At the end of the day, I can't sit down and write a song to sell.
I like good melodies and a great song.
I certainly don't want to make the same record twice. That's no fun.
I like to keep working and keep changing. It's a hopeful, optimistic thing to think and sit about what you could do next. Maybe it's blind optimism.
I like to make things. When you make something, you work it and you work it until it's done, and then you say 'Look, here's what I made.'
I listen to everything: noise, classical, jazz. I like lots of different types of food. There's no way you could get me to eat the same meal everyday, so why would I do the same with music?
I don't really make particularly abrasive music, but at the same time I wouldn't change something to make people like it.
What's fascinating about facial hair? It's more fascinating that people shave it off every day.
I don't want to single anyone out. I'll just say that there are a lot of not good band names out there.
Me, I'm a lazy bum, so I don't shave.
Contradictions are fun.
I liked 'The Omen.'
I try to use a poetic language more than talk about my feelings, but it is married to the music.
Like anyone who records music or writes a song, I thought, 'Wouldn't that be cool if someday I were able to do this for a living?' But it was such a fluke, and it really all took me by surprise and I just held on for dear life. I really wasn't prepared. I really went into it naively with no experience.
Sometimes I teach script writing.
A lot of the big-budget movies, craft-wise, are amazing, but have a boring story. And the indies have their idiosyncrasies.
When I put out a record I don't really like to do covers as much, but I don't mind playing them. I do them mostly for my friends. When a friend's like, 'Man I really like that song,' I go 'hahaha' and I go home and I record it.
