When I Was A Kid, I Always

In The United States The Government Has Become Less Important. So, It's Democracy, But As Each Year Passes It Seems That The Government Plays Less Of A Role In People's Lives, And So They're Living In Whatever Situation Their Employment Imposes Upon Them More Than They're Living In A Grand Political System.

A Record Is Something That Isn't Real Or True. It's Like Cinema. It's A Construction Of Something Hyper-real And Surreal And Unreal All At The Same Time. You Make A Space That Doesn't Really Exist. One Of The Big Joys Of Being In This Line Of Work Is Building The Recorded Versions Of The Songs.

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.

To Me, The Best Purpose Of An Interview Would Be To Illuminate Some Things About How Somebody Works For The Benefit Of Somebody Else Who Wants To Do Those Things. And That's Not Where Most Interviews Go At All, So To Me, They Seem Like Strange Exercises In Small Talk And Wasted Air.

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.