I've always been a good ball-striker, but if you're not a great putter, you're not going to win a lot.

I can't dwell on the past, that I haven't won a lot, but anytime I didn't play good was mainly because I didn't putt very good.

I don't hide anything. There's just nothing to hide with me.

I know there's a lot of guys would love to see me fail.

Money is just paper that gets us through life.

A bad day on the course doesn't have to mean a bad night and a bad week and you get to scream at your agent.

I've had enough of worrying about everybody else. Now I'm taking care of me.

I don't want to be average.

It's nice to finally be my own person.

I love the fans here in Australia.

In life, you have got to make the best of every situation; you have to keep going.

It seems there always something coming up for me during Masters week, but that's not an excuse to play good or bad golf.

I've always said that I play for the fans.

I'd like my first Ryder Cup appearance to be in the United States.

I've had surgery on my knee and both feet and my elbow.

I'm really good at math and history, but I suck in English.

I wasn't a silver-spoon kid on the golf course growing up.

I guess when we get older, we try so hard to get our game back. Sometimes it happens, and sometimes it doesn't.

I'm a kind of go-getter.

I've always said that it's none of my business what other people think of me.

I make a lot of bogeys and a lot of birdies.

More and more, I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice. In death metal, a lot of guys are Eddie Van Halen disciples, but they take his style to really expressionistic places. It's a real pleasure for me to hear people pushing their craft.

I was writing poetry, and the Mountain Goats was an outgrowth of that.

Opera combines pretty basic theater and poetry, but the storyline itself is actually quite poetic and, after some digital research, taking that actual content and seeing it as undeniably poetic.

I always assumed people wanted to hear me tell stories, but then I had 'The Sunset Tree.' It turned out, my own stories were the ones that registered with people the hardest.

I wrote 'Lakeside View Apartment Suites' with Roman in my arms. He was about a month old. I was playing left-handed and finally handed him over. On the demo of it, you can hear him crying in the next room.

I don't have a favorite drink. I don't do favorites of anything, practically.

Your intelligence doesn't override your desire to destroy yourself.

I was a huge comic book fan. It's weird because the era of 'Marvel' I was into turns out to be very important in the long run, but it's not the one that anybody romanticizes.

Metal isn't necessarily aggressive. There's metal that's contemplative, there's metal that's sad, and there's metal that's exuberant. No genre is limited in what it can express.

It's like fiction - the fact that somebody's telling you a story about people who didn't exist doesn't make the experience of the story any less real in your heart and mind. You go through heavy emotional responses to these stories, and wrestling is a similar thing - but it's happening in real space.

Younger songwriters will ask me, 'What did you do?' And it's like, 'Well, I worked a day job, and I didn't stake anything. I didn't quit my day job. I didn't have any hopes at all. I just did the thing that I believed in, and I waited a long time.'

I think wrestling is the one that presents theater for people who want to see some theater but don't necessarily have to dress up or be quiet while they're watching.

I think all writing is necessarily autobiographical to a greater or lesser extent, and the less it tries to be confessional, the more likely it is that you're somehow sneaking the things you need to say in there.

Metal has its own code of cool, but it's not really trying to be cool. And that was very refreshing to me, that metal is very much about expressing something that seems awesome to you even if, at the time, much of the world was going to mock and reject it.

At my high school, there were always kids carrying acoustic guitars around, which is why I named my band the Mountain Goats. I didn't want to seem like one of those guys who brought his guitar to the party whether you asked him to or not.

That's what I used to enjoy so much: Bringing a record home, having it arrive in the mailbox. Having the whole experience of hearing it as you're holding it and looking at it and reading the liner notes, if they're anything.

I watched 'Fame,' and I just love the choreography. It just gives me a place to be in another zone.

For me, fiction isn't very cathartic. It can be a broad, long catharsis, but it's a whole different thing - whereas music is physical. Essentially, it goes in through your ear. Fiction is cerebral, necessarily. It can do emotional stuff. But they don't really compare - not for me.

I write stuff down. I have a chalkboard in the kitchen where I will scrawl stuff down if I have a faint outline of an idea. And I'll go into my office or whatever. But that goes from format to format.

My feminism is what came squarely up against my faith. There's a lot of ecstatic post-patriarchal Christians who have stuff they do with that. But at that point, you're doing Christianity with a double-superscript. The Bible, and especially the book of Genesis, is pretty unapologetically patriarchal.

If I go see a band, and they play, like, zero from any of their old albums, I'm very happy about that. I do not want to see the bands of my youth playing the songs of my youth. I hate that.

I pretty much just focus on making the records - unless I'm self-releasing them; then I do my own thing. But at some point, you have to stop worrying about chains of distribution, or it takes out of your time to write.

At 23, you can completely, literally reinvent yourself if you want to.

There's the dual challenge of wanting to speak from an authentic place, and then being able to be honest about it. Even in the most mannered art, I think that's what people value, is a voice that comes from a real place.

I'd played with Jon Wurster as a duo just for a lark.

As an idea occurs to me, I'll either follow it or not, but I'm more instinctive than master-planner about stuff.

A band's first album's usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

Most of 'All Hail West Texas' was written during orientation at a new job I had. I had basically worked this job before, I knew this stuff, so I was writing lyrics in the margins of all the Xeroxed material.

My strongest hope is for a cameo as a band playing in a club visited by the detectives on 'Law & Order: SVU' during the course of an investigation, maybe during sound check, or something, so they can force us to stop playing while they question the sound guy.