I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone knowing anything about me anymore.

I want people to see me happy.

Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.

The title of a song is like the wrapping on a present.

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.

Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.