I'm not dissatisfied, just not satisfied in an ultimate sense.

The first half of high school, I had a girlfriend, and then the second half I got to know these guys who would just get stoned and jam. I had struck the goth thing by then, but I still thought of myself as Ian Curtis or something.

I dont think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.

I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.

My goal is to make something special and pure, and that keeps me going, keeps me busy on the path of sobriety.

I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.

When making a record, I could done a new face pretty easily and use all these different devices to hide who I am - or who I was - which really had very little to do with what I was trying to convey.