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.
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 records and music are more appropriate and more respectful of the human soul than the churches are. And more respectful of the needs of humans to communicate with the aspects of themselves that are neglected by language.
I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it.
I think everybody works from a defensive position, for the most part, in the film industry.
I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance.
I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the poverty line, we're engaging in piracy.
It's O.K. to accept good fortune.
It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.
As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.
I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal - in this case, the ideal of the pirate - and then becomes something that's more radical, more exciting, more subversive than a pirate could ever be.
I don't like going to cities. I don't mind maybe being in a city sometimes for a few hours, but I pretty much don't like cities. I don't even like passing through them.
Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.
Whenever I see something that looks like it could be good - whether it's on vinyl, CD or cassette - if it's not too expensive, I'll take a chance.
I'd like my records to reach as many people as possible, but I'm also thinking in terms of how I can keep from getting jaded or unhappy with the process.
It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.
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 really hate press.
Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.
I like rural areas.
