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.

There's nothing more satisfying than going to a market and meeting the person who picked the strawberries, or it's their farm that the strawberries came from, and giving them a fair value in exchange for what they're giving you.

When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before.

And the world so hard to understand is the world you can't live without.

Why is it that all non-conformists look the same?

You can only be this high-powered mojo rock band for so long, then you just can't look people in the eye. So, we've projected our own demise.

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.