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I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing.

I'm not so interested in being indie just for the sake of being indie.

I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don't really understand is the attitude that if a band is unknown, they're good, and if they get fans, then you move on to the next band.

I do get the sense sometimes that if I draw things too nice, maybe I won't be indie-rock enough anymore.

There's a certain type of indie fan who would balk at the prospect of there being value in pop music, but I think that's foolish. They're not really listening.

I really do listen to all types of music, not only rock, but everything from good pop music - which is usually older pop music - to R&B and indie rock. I love indie rock more than a lot of the commercial stuff that you'd expect.

I know that there are a lot of sort of silly things that one thinks as a music listener about bands. I am a fan of many bands.

I don't have no favorite rock bands. I'm a fan of rock music, though.

To a degree, rock fans like to live vicariously and they like that, music fans in general, but when indie music sort of came into prominence in the early '90s, a lot of it was TV-driven, too, where if you saw the first Nirvana video, you're looking at three guys that look like people you go to school with.