I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.

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

That's at the root of the human interaction: fair trade.

The things I'm guided to do are really strange to me.

Beware of those angels with their wings glued on.

I was playing heavy metal when I was 18. I had to evolve out of that into an alternative consciousness about what it meant to change the way I played guitar, and the kind of songs, and the subject matter, and singing about child abuse, and all this stuff. I had to come from somewhere, and I had to take chances to do that.

To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.