You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.

I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in the city.

I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.

I went to see a shaman. He put his hands on me, and I cried like a baby for an hour.

People act like Nirvana invented grunge; they just took it and personified it.

I've had a lot of things rendered as not being effective or as some indication of my lack of sanity, only to be praised ten, fifteen, twenty years later for what I did once in this overt consciousness.

I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.