When It Comes To Art, Money Is

Miami's Not Anybody's Poor Cousin. It's An Aspiration To Live In This Town, Not Something You Have To Do To Promote Yourself Like Some Of The Larger Cities.

A Lot Of Young Musicians Get The Money At The Wrong Time. They Get It For Something They Don’t Feel Great About, And It’ll Make You Feel So Bad It’ll Destroy You And Kill You.

My General Take On American Music Since 1969 Is That It's Just Getting Stiffer And People Are Getting More Uptight - Audience, Performance, And Palace Guard.

When Punk Began To Be A Genre, People Were Going To Go Out And Try To Mine It. Some Of The Better Groups, Like The Ramones And The Sex Pistols, Were Very Artificial.

I Thought That If I Practiced Doing Melodies For A Year Or So At Home, I Would Learn To Think Melodically, And When I Went To Work It Would Come Out, And It Did, On This Album. What Else Was Important To Me...? I Spend A Lot Of Time In The Grocery Store, Shopping.