If you don't fit into this kind of like gossipy, trendy, Web-hit thingy, you're relegated to sort of second-class celebrity status.

Actually, I was having dinner with Michael [Stipe, of R.E.M.] when our second album went platinum, which up until that point was the highest success we'd ever had. And he turned to me during dinner and said, 'Welcome to the deep waters, kid.' I'll never forget that.

I put up with the music business because I understand that I'm in the tradition, I'm in a tradition that's of far greater importance than the business I seem to be in. Everywhere I go in the world, people ask me about the business that I seem to be in, but I'm not really in that business.

Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us thru fear.

Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.