The DSM-IV Award for Best Formal Thought Disorder

Frog Eyes’ Carey Mercer

CMG: What would you say is your main concern?

Carey Mercer: The whole damn battalion’s got to run from this spot!

CMG: How long have you felt this way?

Carey Mercer: Everybody’s got a darkness in their gut. This is everybody’s got a hole in their heart!

CMG: How’s your mood?

Carey Mercer: Shitty light over the waves!

CMG: And your sleep?

Carey Mercer: Shitty light over the waves!

CMG: Have you thought about ending your life?

Carey Mercer: And flee from the black beak of the hawk…

CMG: How would you flee from the black beak?

Carey Mercer: Ideal wave! Ideal blade!

CMG: Do you hear voices that aren’t there?

Carey Mercer: They said, “Cast off, get away from this rock. I shall live another day and I curse the hell out of this rock. The Crystalline Cathedral is in the damn-dest spot!”

CMG: Are you still going to make fucking incendiary albums?

Carey Mercer: Do-do-do-do, do-do-do-do.