You could have a zillion Facebook followers. Those people don't buy records. It's about a hundred to one...Record companies, they don't have any money so they see social media as the free marketing...So,...'Billy, light yourself on fire and stand upside down, and that'll market the record'. I've spent a lot of time thinking about this. I don't think people by records because of anything that happens on Facebook. They buy records cause they're friends say 'I bought this record and I love it'.

If you don't have some sort of belief system by which to center your life, it's hard sometimes to understand why you would put up with your family.

I was part of a generation that changed the world - and it was taken over by poseurs.

A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.

Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a God or Gods should pose no threat to you.

To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.

I created a paradigm by which I could succeed, and up until recently it was the only way I could do it. I could not take the brunt of standing in the light of my own work. There was a Faustian bargain I could not make. I could have you mock me for wearing funny clothes that I could deal with. But I couldn't deal with actually standing in the light of my own musical power. That's the difference now. It's like, okay, no more of that, you're done.