"The Misfits are a good reference here. Having come off the question of where Dinosaur Jr. fit in, as with The Misfits, this is kind of hard to describe and hard to pigeonhole. They don't belong in just one box. Like when I was back working with Roky Erickson, who had the 13th Floor Elevators – the Elevators were heroes and Roky's voice was maniacal. Just that screaming. It was lovely. 

The Phantoms aren't quite psychedelic, but Roky was part of a group that popularised the term, a word which first emerged around 1957. It was certainly handy, to give a point of reference to what the Elevators were delivering. Back then I had the Moving Sidewalks. I chose that name because, well, elevators take you up, if that's where you want to go. Moving sidewalks take you forward."

"“I have to include Banville, one of the greatest novelists alive, and I like to think he wrote this one expressly for me — blue guitar and all — although it doesn’t have the slightest reference to me and I am delusional. I take ages reading Banville, as I reread every other sentence to savor his incredible constructions of text. Nobody can touch him, in my opinion.”"