I'll be the first one to tell you that I'm not the most casual person.
I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.
I don't really like to go out to clubs or anything. It's just not my style. I'd much rather go to a dive bar or a local place.
But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.
The people on my mum's side of the family are atheist intellectuals who are ueber-proper. My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life.
Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement.
I'm a great believer in poetry out of the classroom, in public places, on subways, trains, on cocktail napkins. I'd rather have my poems on the subway than around the seminar table at an MFA program.
I don't like parties. I prefer something more intimate, just for the closest people.
I've had some of my best matches in front of 50 people in bingo halls and VFW halls and things like that.
I've found that many of the greatest ideas surface in bars because that's where many people cultivate inspiration.
Lots of deals happen in situations that aren't 'pure work.'
There are so many little places I want to play, sometimes weird places I think would be fun to play... a bar that's half full.
I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses.
I would play around bonfires with my friends, and people were telling me that I was good.
