Being overly identified with [a certain period of time] becomes a noose around your neck, and people don't want you to grow up, they don't want you to change, they don't want you to evolve.

There's a difference between being a poseur and being someone who's so emotionally challenged they're kind of just doing their best to show you what they've got.

Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.

In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.

When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before.

The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the man, fight the government, fight the people in front of you - it's Don Quixote all over again. You're really chasing windmills.

I've always believed that we could reach past genre -- we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails; we've always been on our terms.