You should avoid seeing too much of yourself anywhere: in the outside world, in others, in the imagined worlds that give you shelter.
There are so many ways to respond to music besides feeling like someone's communicating with you. It gives me a charge.
I don't write my own publicity materials, I just read 'em and give 'em the OK.
I usually kind of can't wait until my records leak. Back in the day, you could give people tapes, but you can't do that anymore, because it would be available to everyone on the planet within an hour.