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.

One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.

If there was a simple ethic for the band, it was that we want to be able to do whatever we want to do.

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want...and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.

My earliest memory is of feeling different. My parents told me that I wasn't like other children.

I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.

There's been someone up here screaming 'Landslide' for the whole show... Normally we don't play 'Landslide,' but on occasion we've been known to play it... So since this person's been screaming it all show long... That just about kills the chances of me playing it tonight, or ever again.