A lot of times, when you record something, the album becomes less about the music and more technical.

From when I young, a lot of the things I grappled with, with instruments, was how large they were. When someone places a large guitar in your lap, it's hard - I'd learned how to play a guitar when I was a kid, but I never really felt like I was in control.

I had a very strong 'revertigo' for becoming the kid that I was when I was in Dinosaur Jr. That's a pretty insecure place that I was in.

Los Angeles was really beautiful, and California in general is a great place to live.

During Katherine Hepburn's time when she was just coming into her own at 40.

You think you're in another civilization, another time, and then you see antennas coming out of these hovels, and your mouth falls open when you see the descendants of the Incas shouting 'Columbo! Columbo!'

I had a ton of animals; I had a goat growing up, a bunch of rabbits, a vegetable garden.

Growing up, we were a poor yet tightknit family. My mother worked multiple jobs and always made sure that her kids never had to want for anything.