I'm pretty strict with videos, at least the imagery stuff.
Selling another 10 million albums is not a priority. Putting out something you're proud of is.
Thenewno2 is sort of my little prototype band, really.
I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment.
I played drums on Keith Carradine's first record.
I worked on a film short with Frank Sinatra when I was a kid.
To get over artist's block, make shitty art.
If there was a blog with five listeners or viewers, I had to be on it. Now I have to be on fewer media, but more substantive media.
I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
I think getting the rest of the guys in the band to write is important.
When I was a kid, I had some Charles Lloyd records.
The first thing to know about playing baseball in Michigan is, Michigan's really cold.
I don't listen to opinions.
Maud Gonne was - excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang.
I'm pretty close with a lot of guys, like Nick Watney and Steve Marino, D.J. Trahan and Charlie Warren.
I was riding dirt bikes when I was a little kid. I got my first Harley Davidson when I was 17 years old. It was a frame with wheels and a tank on it and all the parts in a box.
Rocker dudes don't have a lot of swagger.
I used to play drums when I was a kid, play the trombone.
The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.
Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you've got an audience!
