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.

I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.

I'm not going to die glamorously. I'll probably be eating a Twinkie, take a bite, and fall over.

Gish was the best representation of where we were at the time.

Like any form of death, at some point you just have to get up and say yeah I'll take it, whatever's gonna happen is gonna happen and sorta chop your head off. It's easy to avoid all that...there's always another moment, another girl, another high, another drug, there's always something to distract you.

The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.