To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.

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.

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.

I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.

I rummage around in artistic things from the past. If you don't understand the context, they wouldn't make any sense. I rummage around in conceptual ideas of the future, but if you don't know the source of the thinking, [it] wouldn't make any sense.