Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n' roll.

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.

One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.

I've seen foreigners really shift on their view of America, and that's hard for me to take.

There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.

If you've sold over a million records, you are not punk rock, you are milking the system for everything that it's worth.

Gish was the best representation of where we were at the time.