It makes me crazy to think that somebody might attack my city or any other city.

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.

I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.

We are the most beloved and hated band in the world.

That's the age that people are exploited, exploitable, and they're easily manipulated. The problem with me is, you can't manipulate me anymore. I've seen it, I know it, I've been there. And that's partially why, particularly in America, you see issues with artists as they get older. And they like to keep it a young man's game. Because that's how they can fudge around with the rules.

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 didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.