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

What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.

I think the original, 'They're the next Jane's Addiction' things that people said about us in the beginning have been pretty much wiped out.

Everybody can close their eyes, picture a dream house or a perfect place [where] they'd like to have a picnic. But actually creating it - how do you create something from nothing? Anyone who's creative understands that that's the magic, that's the alchemy.

Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.

People act like Nirvana invented grunge; they just took it and personified it.

If there was a simple ethic for the band, it was that we want to be able to do whatever we want to do.