Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.

I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.

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

Everybody I'm working with now is a friend. And I would be very, very remiss to work with anybody in the future who has not shown me who they really are.

We had a wonderful time with this kind of grunge awareness, where suddenly rock was cool again. People wanted to head loud guitars. It was a great time, and I'm glad we were there. But the gimmick part has worn off.

To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.

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.