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 process.

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

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.

I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it.

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 have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal - in this case, the ideal of the pirate - and then becomes something that's more radical, more exciting, more subversive than a pirate could ever be.