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.

Soon you won't even have the choice to live or die as you wish!

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.

I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when those things are not given the proper contextual hue.

I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

I'm very disappointed in my country right now, because I think we've kind of lost our moral compass.