There's more well-known artists who aren't making as good songs as people who are just coming out of nowhere. That seems to be more typical in the la….

There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. ….

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic. But after a while, I realized that….

Sometimes, reissues can be revelatory, or put the original record in a different light, but those are rare..

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars..

For the records I've work on over the last 10 years, I get sent the really compressed version and the non-compressed version, and oftentimes you end ….

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic..

I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation..

I enjoy recording live better, but I think by the nature of it you are going to end up with something that's a little bit more traditional..

I love British humor. It's just so - surreal..

I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded..

There are plenty of Minutemen. People willing to be Minutemen. Where are the people that want to be George Washington? Where are the Benjamin Frankli….

I'm sure the music is going to come out. I'm not sure if I'm going to put out 12"s or put the songs on my website. I just have to get them done..

Back then, Pro Tools only had four or eight tracks, so we couldn't actually hear all the tracks. We could only hear eight at a time, so if a song had….

I didn't want to do something typical..

Eventually, if you're experimenting with a sound that's unfamiliar, it gets absorbed, and somebody comes and does it better, and it becomes part of a….

You can't write if you can't relate..

When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great….

I'm always looking for older equipment and ways of recording, but you can't escape the fact that it's all going to be digitized and reduced. I do thi….

I didn't want to be on a major label. I wanted all the attention and the noise to go away because I wanted to be something a little bit more substant….

I had long hair when I was a teenager..