The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.

I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I'm lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.

Every night I play as if my life depends on it.

I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]

I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class. The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.