These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.

About six months ago, I listened to Siamese Dream. That was the first time I'd ever really heard my own album, because I had separated from the experience of making the record. And it really moved me. It made me cry, it's so beautiful.

I never seemed to fit in. But it made me try to strive for things ten times harder.

I think the original, 'They're the next Jane's Addiction' things that people said about us in the beginning have been pretty much wiped out.

I don't wanna play this kind of cartoon character anymore.

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.

Don't judge yourself by someone else's standards. You will always lose