I Have Thousands Of Tapes, And Photos

We Were Not A Band That Typically Would Say, "hello, Whatever Town!"

I Do Feel Like I Have Always, In My Life, Been Inclined To Be On The Outside, Walk A Different Path Or Something. Because Of That, And Increasingly Over The Years, My Sense Of Distance From Mainstream Society Or From The Way Culture Works, I Have A Different Kind Of Perception Of It.

I've Done Thousands Of Interviews In My Life, And It's A Format That I Quite Enjoy, Because I Think Of Questions In Interviews As An Opportunity To Sort Of Gauge My Growth In A Way. It Gives Me An Idea Of How I'm Navigating This World That I'm In.

I Think About Dischord. There's Been A Pretty Consistent Notion That Dischord Have Been Some Sort Of "overlords" Of The Scene. Some People Have Felt 'they Are Too Cool For Us,' Or 'they Won't Put This Out,' Etc. All We're Doing Is Our Own Work, Our Own Thing. That's All We've Ever Done. Our Work.

It's So Interesting That Humanity Has To Be Defined By Emotional Strife Or Something. I Don't Buy Into That.