I put up with the music business because I understand that I'm in the tradition, I'm in a tradition that's of far greater importance than the business I seem to be in. Everywhere I go in the world, people ask me about the business that I seem to be in, but I'm not really in that business.

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

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

I want people to see me happy.

Most great records really start with the drums.

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.

The reason I don't play any of the old songs is because I really honor my old band, and I think that those songs are best served within the context of that band.