Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that.

It's what the mainstream does - they absorb things and they blunt the power of it. And so the next generation and the next generation has to become more shocking and more provocative in order to get any rise out of anybody.

The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.

If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.

Actually, I was having dinner with Michael [Stipe, of R.E.M.] when our second album went platinum, which up until that point was the highest success we'd ever had. And he turned to me during dinner and said, 'Welcome to the deep waters, kid.' I'll never forget that.

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in the cage.

Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.