I'd go to a more civil party just to socialize, and I didn't know what to do with myself. So I drank a shot of tequila. And then I drank another one. I probably had four or five shots. I was like, Tequila! It wakes you right up! But no.

I've never gotten in too much trouble with alcohol. I've never had a drinking problem, really.

Some people think they are such geniuses and just thought of that. They think they are so smart, like they say All this talk about Kurt Vile and no one asks him where he got his stupid name from, or, No one asks where he stole his name from. And I'm like, Oh, you're a genius.

A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time. I'm the kind of person who will set time aside to do something and then do everything but that thing.

Not that Matador is a major label, but its major enough for me. On one level we're on Matador, but our amps still might explode on stage or they'll be an echo in the mic. It's like climbing a ladder. I like to climb it really slowly. I could probably get really professional right away, but I like to take baby steps and find my own way.

I've always been a deep sleeper because I come from such a large family - there are 10 kids - I could sleep through anything.

I'll know when a song's really awesome, for sure, and I get super stoked and I'm so high when I'm hearing it back, but then you sit with the record forever. You're mixing it and you can really just over-think everything. I'll go back and forth all the time.

I use a lot of humor in my writing. But it's completely black humor.