I don't think I'm before my time, I just don't think I'm in my time.

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

The point is to let the music be itself. If it doesn't mean anything to you, then it's bullsh*t.

There's a lot of UFO sightings in New Orleans, which isn't really too surprising. There's a lotta crazy people there. The people there lack the intelligence to know what they are seeing, so that's why the UFO's go there.

I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around.

I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.

I was part of a generation that changed the world - and it was taken over by poseurs.