I have the weirdest job. It's not every day that you get to stand up onstage and unload every ounce of your misanthropic bile onto a crowd of people,….

With the first kid, you micromanage it, making sure there's no hair out of place when it goes off to school. But by the third kid, it's more like, "O….

I had brief glimpses of emotional catharsis while writing. I remember reading something Philip Roth wrote about how he writes every single day, but i….

An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It's not the full spectrum. It's never going to sound as good as a record..

Everybody's got a dark side, but mine doesn't include being around people who are mean..

The schematics are a little bit tricky, but once you get it down you're able to really program an entire show. Every song has a lot of different guit….

Every part of every song can have a totally different musical sound, because otherwise if I wanted to go from a verse of one song to the chorus of an….

I wanted to give the songs a run for their money, to see if they stood on their own without a lot of accoutrements. It made more sense - and it was e….

Music is kind of a strange business, and it's too weird of a job to have mean, conniving people around..

I think cults are probably a little less scary. To me, it's scarier that 25 people would wear robes and jump up and down and try to convert everyone ….

I think anything that you can't poke fun at is a little too precious..

CDs are usually an hour long because that's the amount a CD could hold - not because that's the optimal amount of time for any given musical expressi….

What I did with my first records was, my writing process was that I didn't touch any instruments to write it, so I was making it all on the computer,….

I don't even wanna say female guitar-players, just guitar-players, because music of all things doesn't need to be gendered and stratified, that's so ….

I'm first and foremost a guitar player. I've been playing since I was 12, which is over half of my life..

I'd listen to things that felt really good in the moment and realize they were clouded by enthusiasm or caffeine. And things that I was struggling to….

I wouldn't say I'm a very technical [guitar] player. I'm more intuitive - it's always more about chasing an abstraction..

The most important thing is setting up these directives for yourself. Like, "I'm only going to use these three colors - go!" That's why Einstein wore….

I have a lot of guitar heroes I guess, some of them are female and some of them are male. Robert Fripp is one of them, and Marc Ribot, that's another….

Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to d….

I do love the ceremony of putting on a record but I don't have space for a vinyl collection..