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

If there was a simple ethic for the band, it was that we want to be able to do whatever we want to do.

I want to make great songs.

I had such a big mouth for so long that it doesn't faze anybody anymore.

I put up with the music business because I understand that I'm in the tradition, I'm in a tradition that's of far greater importance than the business I seem to be in. Everywhere I go in the world, people ask me about the business that I seem to be in, but I'm not really in that business.

In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else.

I was part of a generation that changed the world - and it was taken over by poseurs.