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….

To me, recordings are little fourth-dimension artifacts, because they already are representatives of past, present, and future, just inherently in th….

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 proc….

One thing that the Internet has created is the sense that information is at your fingertips, when it's really only a very, very limited, specific, an….

I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars..

The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing on the listener. It's rare that a song gro….

It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to..

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..

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 think everybody works from a defensive position, for the most part, in the film industry..

There's nothing that compares to watching that final of Charles Mee’s 'The Glory of the World' play at BAM17 to 20 minute sequence in one sitting. It….

I don't usually read reviews. I usually read the interviews, just because I figure it's a good way to try to do them better if I ever have to do them….

My dream many years ago would've been to continue to write and record songs in record/album form for years to come, but now records aren't what they ….

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, w….

I make the songs and part of making them is singing them. But what you hear is not me. It's the song. It's through me..

When you're listening to a recording, you're supposedly listening to some aspect of the past in the present as you travel slowly into the future, but….

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 human….

I still make music. I still write music and I record music, I just don't trust music promotion [and] distribution right now enough to record a new se….

Cities are made for enemies to destroy..

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..

Then little writings and recordings that thankfully continue to come up. I'm in this kind of wonderful, kind of awkward, off-putting, and strange pos….