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

I want to be able to look back and think that as long as I was going this, I did the best that I could.

Rock & roll is not about what you play, it's about how you play it.

Around the mid-'90s every hair guy who would have been in a hair-metal band got his tattoos and suddenly decided he was alternative. It just became like a thing.

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

The weird nihilism that permeates Mellon Collie is extremely relevant to what's going on right now. So many kids are intelligent and articulate, but they don't know what to do with themselves.

We were just a little immature in the past. I think we actually wanted to create difficult situations for ourselves just to be able to use that emotion for stimulation.