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The limitations are limitless.
You can't please everybody, man.
You can't write if you can't relate.
I had long hair when I was a teenager.
I didn't want to do something typical.
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.
Your heart is a drum keeping time with everyone.
I grew up I guess you'd say in the cassette era.
No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.
Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
I try not to do email; I try to talk to people on the phone.
I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.
There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.
[Early on,] the attitude was that what I was doing wasn't music.
There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable.
In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments.
I didn't go to high school. I never felt connected to people my age.
I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
As music becomes more computer-based, it's lost some emotional impact.
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded.
I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.
I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.
Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead
I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction.
Somebody else is satisfied by five Bentleys. I'm satisfied by a beautiful string arrangement.
You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.
When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.
It gets a little bit troublesome when you have something that's overcompressed that shouldn't be.
It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener.
I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.
I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
Sometimes, reissues can be revelatory, or put the original record in a different light, but those are rare.
It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
Whatever you do has to be commercial and it can't be too distracting - it has to be background music, basically.
It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be.
Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.
With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.
Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.
I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.
I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.
I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.
There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite.