I Think, For Some Artists, The Fear

The Internet Is Just A Scary Place. It's Better To Just Go To The Doctor. Don't Let Google Get Inside Your Head. It Will Do Bad Things To You.

I Would Not Call Myself An Optimist, Even Though I Would Aspire To Be. I Am Innately A Skeptic. There's Kind Of An Incessant Dissatisfaction That I Have, That I'm Always Trying To Either Expose Or Fight Against Or Wrestle With.

I Think We As People Struggle For What Is Meaningful In Our Lives, And I Think That Modern, Contemporary Life Is As Easy As It's Ever Been, For Many, Many People, And The Amount Of Physical Exertion, For Most People, Is Less Than It's Ever Been. I Think That There Is Something About The Ritual Of Making Things More Difficult That People Find Meaning In.

There Was This Kind Of Wackiness That Was Really Embraced And Put On A Pedestal. It Was Before The Millennium. We Were Envisioning A Future That Was Mostly Idealistic. I Think That Came Crashing Down A Little Bit In 9/11, Or A Lot. There Is Something About Portland That Does Seem To Still Exist In This Total Idealistic World And Total Idealistic Mind Frame, And I Think That's What Dream Of The '90s Is Talking About.

Rock Band Is More Like Stairmaster Than It Is Like Rock 'n' Roll - It's The Same Steps With Different Degrees Of Difficulty.