Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?

People act like Nirvana invented grunge; they just took it and personified it.

Like any form of death, at some point you just have to get up and say yeah I'll take it, whatever's gonna happen is gonna happen and sorta chop your head off. It's easy to avoid all that...there's always another moment, another girl, another high, another drug, there's always something to distract you.

Rock & roll is not about what you play, it's about how you play it.

It was shocking to see Nirvana play, because it was like, "Here's this little guy with a monster-guitar sound." And it was heavier than Black Sabbath. That was shocking.

I think the original, 'They're the next Jane's Addiction' things that people said about us in the beginning have been pretty much wiped out.