Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.

Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what's important to you, does not make you weaker.

You know what, the drummer is my manager. He's busy. And I'm busy. I don't need the dough, though. But having said that, there's a limit to how much bad music I wanna play. I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn't great.

Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that's interesting.

Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.

All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.

One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are. Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.