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.

When alternative music - which is supposed to be the standard-bearer of where white rock is headed - becomes either too cute or too manufactured, that's just really not good.

Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.

I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and whether or not anybody's listening, or listening to the degree I would like them to, at the end of the day has to be an inconsequential thing because I can't chase this culture.

In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.

Being in a rock band is just an excuse not to get a job

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.