What bothers me is when music becomes entertainment. Of course, music is supposed to be entertaining, but go back to any period of time - music had a cultural significance on different levels, whether it was folk music, it was the news of the village, or it had to do with the rites of passage.

I really think it's a white, bourgeois idea to pretend that you don't have influences. It seems to be the obsession strictly of white people in college.

Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.

That's at the root of the human interaction: fair trade.

Don't judge yourself by someone else's standards. You will always lose

I do not think wrestling is going to save the world.

I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.