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.

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 believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.

It's what the mainstream does - they absorb things and they blunt the power of it. And so the next generation and the next generation has to become more shocking and more provocative in order to get any rise out of anybody.

Wrestling is one of the last truly rebellious American things left.

My view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than I am.

I didn't find Jesus. He's been there the whole time.